Semester A, 2001-2002

Lecturer: Dr. Moshe Sipper

Presentations will take place on Wednesday, January 30, 12-14, Building 34, Room 203.
Final Report is due Friday, February 8.

Course Description

Manadatory Reading

• Introductory Paper on Evolutionary Algorithms

Possible Topics

• Genetic Algorithms
• Genetic Programming
• Coevolutionary Algorithms
• Cellular Programming
• Evolutionary Robotics
• Ant Algorithms
• Artificial Self-Replication
• Tierra
• Artificial Neural Networks
• More Topics

Administrative Details

• Course reference: 202-1-4251.
• Web: www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sipper/courses/miniproj02a/.
• Prerequisite: The course is intended for third-year students.
• Credits: 2.
• Time: Wednesday 12-14.
• Place: Building 34, Room 203.
• Grade:
  • 60%: Project evaluation.
  • 20%: Final report.
  • 20%: Final presentation.
• Students will work on their own or in pairs.
• The final report (between 10-20 pages) should include the following sections:
  • a short introduction of the domain being investigated;
  • a description of the problem or phenomenon studied;
  • an explanation of the methods and algorithms employed;
  • a description of your programmed system;
  • an account of the results obtained;
  • (hopefully...) some interesting conclusions;
  • bibliographic references.