Semester A, 2002-2003

Lecturer: Prof. Moshe Sipper

Course Description

• This elective course will be given as a seminar, wherein students give talks on research topics described below.

General Reference

• Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing

Administrative Details

• Web: www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sipper/courses/sembio02/.
• Prerequisite: Complexity, Algorithm Design, Data Structures
• Credits: 2.
• Time: Tuesday 10:10-11:40 (no break!).
• Place: Building 90, Room 235.
• Grade:
  • 70%: Lecture.
  • 30%: Small software project.
• Notes:
  • Attendance in all talks is obligatory!
    One absence: okay
    Two absences: 10 point deduction on final grade
    Three absences: did not participate (לא השתתף) 
  • If (#students < #lectures) { Some/All students will lecture twice. }
  • If (#students > #lectures) { Some/All lectures will be delivered in pairs. }

List of Talks

• Tuesday, October 22: Introduction to Bio-Inspired Computing + Composition of Speaker List. Speaker: Moshe Sipper.
• Tuesday, October 29: Genetic Algorithms: Introduction. Speaker(s): Joshua Kraer, Eyal Nahum. (5-point bonus)
• Tuesday, November 5: Artificial Neural Networks. Speaker(s): Niv Sabath, Amir Ellenberg. (3-point bonus)
• Tuesday, November 12: Genetic Algorithms: Applications. Speaker(s): Roie Zivan, Iris Ashkenazi.
• Tuesday, November 19: Genetic Programming. Speaker(s): Yotam Avivi, Ran Oren.
• Tuesday, November 26: Cellular Automata & Artificial Self-Replication. Speaker(s): Yael Feldmann, Gil Naaman.
• Tuesday, December 3: Evolutionary Robotics. Speaker(s): Nir Dromi, Oded Moses.
• Tuesday, December 10: Cellular Programming. Speaker(s): Ohad Givati, Ofer Sapir, Oleg Verchovsky.
• Tuesday, December 17: Coevolutionary Algorithms. Speaker(s): Or Arieli, Avi Cohen.
• Tuesday, December 24: Ant Algorithms. Speaker(s): Itay Tirosh, Shira Brin.
• Tuesday, December 31: Evolutionary Programming. Speaker(s): Chen Dvir, Tzvika Kazanelson.
• Tuesday, January 7: Classifier Systems. Speaker(s): Ofer Meisels, Ofir Ganani.
• Tuesday, January 14: L-systems. Speaker(s): Ilan Galini, Ido Mosseri.