Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life (202-1-5171)
אלגוריתמים אבלוציוניים וחיים מלאכותיים
Semester A, 2005-2006
Lecturer: Prof. Moshe Sipper
Teaching Assistant: Yonatan Shichel
| המטריקס - בינתיים זה רק סרט |
| לך אל הנמלה, חוקר |
bio-inspired computing, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, artificial life, cellular automata, cellular computing, self-replication, artificial neural networks.
| Exercises | |||
| Read the instructions! | |||
| Ex | Due | Grades | Hall of Fame |
| 1 | Nov. 19 | |
David Gabay & Ziv Ben-Eliahu, Meital Levi & Rami Pozis |
| 2 | Dec. 6 | |
Uri Gonen, Gilad Cohen |
| 3 | Dec. 26 | |
David Gabay & Ziv Ben-Eliahu, Yuval Faust & Asaf Levy |
| 4 | Jan. 12 | |
Metal Levi & Rami Puzis, Guy Katabi |
| 5 | Jan. 28 | |
David Gabay & Ziv Ben-Eliahu |
| Yonatan's general comments on: exercise 1 exercise 2 | |||
| FAQs: exercise 3 | |||
| Final exercise grades | |||
| CORRECTED Final exercise grades | |||
| Schedule (subject to changes..) | ||
| Date | Topic | Subtopic(s) |
| Sunday, Oct. 30 | Introduction | to Bio-Inspired Computing and Artificial Life |
| Wednesday, Nov. 2 | Genetic Algorithms | Introduction |
| Sunday, Nov. 6 | Genetic Algorithms | Holland's Schema Theorem, Exact Schema Theorem (Riccardo Poli's slides) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 9 | Genetic Algorithms | 8 Queens, Genetic Operators, Evolution Strategies |
| Sunday, Nov. 13 | Genetic Algorithms | Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 16 | Genetic Algorithms | Fuzzy Systems, Evolution of Fuzzy Systems |
| Sunday, Nov. 20 | Genetic Algorithms | Coevolution of Fuzzy Systems, Coevolving Sorting Networks |
| Wednesday, Nov. 23 | Genetic Programming | Introduction (also here and here) |
| Sunday, Nov. 27 | Genetic Programming | Examples (here and here), ADFs (Short notes on GP, ADFs and branch typing) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 30 | Genetic Programming | Varieties of GP, Architecture-Altering Operations |
| Sunday, Dec. 4 | Evolution | (Dr. Ariel Novoplansky) |
| Wednesday, Dec. 7 | Genetic Algorithms | Coevolving Solutions to the SCS Problem (Assaf Zaritsky) |
| Sunday, Dec. 11 | Genetic Programming | GP-Robocode, Excerpts from Koza's DVD |
| Wednesday, Dec. 14 | Artificial Neural Networks | Introduction + Supervised Learning -- Perceptrons |
| Sunday, Dec. 18 | Molecular Biology | (Dr. Chen Keasar) |
| Wednesday, Dec. 21 | Artificial Neural Networks | Supervised Learning -- Backpropagation |
| Sunday, Dec. 25 | Artificial Neural Networks | Unsupervised Learning -- Self-Organizing Feature Maps (also here and here) |
| Wednesday, Dec. 28 | Artificial Neural Networks | Evolving Artificial Neural Networks |
| Cellular Computing | Cellular Automata (CA), Quasi-Uniform CA | |
| Sunday, Jan. 1 | Hanukkah | no class |
| Wednesday, Jan. 4 | Cellular Computing | Introduction (also here) |
| Sunday, Jan. 8 | Cellular Computing | Cellular Programming (also here) |
| Wednesday, Jan. 11 | Cellular Computing | Cellular Programming -- Coevolving Architectures for Cellular Machines |
| Sunday, Jan. 15 | Artificial Self-Replication | (also this paper) |
| Wednesday, Jan. 18 | Artificial Life | Introduction |
| Sunday, Jan. 22 | Artificial Life | Digital Universes, Lipidia (An Artificial Chemistry) |
| Wednesday, Jan. 25 | Genetic Programming | Attaining Human-Competitive Game-Playing with Genetic Programming |
Last updated: Jan 10, 2006