Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life (202-1-5171), Semester A, 2006/7
אלגוריתמים אבלוציוניים וחיים מלאכותיים
Lecturer: Prof. Moshe Sipper, Teaching Assistant: Yonatan Shichel
| Announcements |
| Feb. 3: Exercise 5 grades + final exercise average now available |
| שעת קבלה למבחן: יום ד, 31.1.2007, 11-12 |
| Jan. 26: Exercise 4 grades now available |
| Jan. 17: Exercise 2+3 grades updated |
| Jan. 15: Exercise 3 grades now available |
| Dec. 26: Exercise 2 grades now available |
| Dec. 26: Exercise 1 grades updated |
| Dec. 25: Exercise 5 is now ready |
| Dec. 11: Exercise 4 is now ready |
| Nov. 26: Exercise 3 is now ready |
| Nov. 26: Exercise 1 grades updated |
| Nov. 15: Exercise 1 grades now available |
| Nov. 5: Exercise 2 is now ready |
| Oct. 27: Exercise 1 is now ready |
| 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. 12 | |
ohanaar, beckerli, lisse, suissad, nigri, wolfsonk,ilankad, zeharias,meltzerh |
| 2 | Nov. 28 | |
ronav, aharob, blesser, ohanaar, beckerli |
| 3 | Dec. 17 | |
liss, suissad, beckerli, ohanaar, meltzerh, zeharias |
| 4 | Jan. 3 | |
ilankad, wolfsonk, amitbenb, merhavi |
| 5 | Jan. 21 | |
eliyahuu, kertis, einavbit, jasminme, liadi, mazory, ronav |
| Final exercise grades | |||
| Schedule | ||
| Date | Topic | Subtopic(s) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 24 | Introduction | to Bio-Inspired Computing and Artificial Life |
| Wednesday, Oct. 25 | Genetic Algorithms | Introduction |
| Tuesday, Oct. 31 | Genetic Algorithms | Holland's Schema Theorem, Exact Schema Theorem |
| Wednesday, Nov. 1 | Genetic Algorithms | 8 Queens, Genetic Operators, Evolution Strategies |
| Tuesday, Nov. 7 | Genetic Algorithms | Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 8 | Genetic Algorithms | Fuzzy Systems, Evolution of Fuzzy Systems |
| Tuesday, Nov. 14 | Genetic Algorithms | Coevolution of Fuzzy Systems, Coevolving Sorting Networks |
| Wednesday, Nov. 15 | Genetic Algorithms | Coevolving Solutions to the SCS Problem |
| Tuesday, Nov. 21 | Genetic Programming | Introduction (also here and here) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 22 | Genetic Programming | Examples (here and here), ADFs (Short notes on GP, ADFs and branch typing) |
| Tuesday, Nov. 28 | Genetic Programming | Varieties of GP, Architecture-Altering Operations |
| Wednesday, Nov. 29 | Genetic Programming | Attaining Human-Competitive Game-Playing with Genetic Programming |
| Tuesday, Dec. 5 | Genetic Programming | GP-Robocode, Excerpts from Koza's DVD |
| Wednesday, Dec. 6 | Artificial Neural Networks | Introduction + Supervised Learning -- Perceptrons |
| Tuesday, Dec. 12 | Artificial Neural Networks | Supervised Learning -- Backpropagation |
| Wednesday, Dec. 13 | Artificial Neural Networks | Unsupervised Learning -- Self-Organizing Feature Maps (also here and here) |
| Tuesday, Dec. 19 | No class | |
| Wednesday, Dec. 20 | Artificial Neural Networks | Evolving Artificial Neural Networks |
| ------ " ------ | Cellular Computing | Cellular Automata (CA), Quasi-Uniform CA |
| Tuesday, Dec. 26 | Cellular Computing | Cellular Programming (also here) [Emergence of Cellular Computing (also here)] |
| Wednesday, Dec. 27 | Cellular Computing | Cellular Programming -- Coevolving Architectures for Cellular Machines |
| Tuesday, Jan. 2 | No class | |
| Wednesday, Jan. 3 | No class | |
| Tuesday, Jan. 9 | Artificial Self-Replication | (also this paper) |
| Wednesday, Jan. 10 | Genetic Programming | Finding a Common Motif of RNA Sequences using Genetic Programming: The GeRNAMo System (Shahar Michal) |
| Tuesday, Jan. 16 | Artificial Life | Introduction, Digital Universes, Lipidia (An Artificial Chemistry) |
| Wednesday, Jan. 17 | Evolution | (Dr. Ariel Novoplansky) |
Last updated: Feb. 3, 2007