Topics in Bio-Inspired Computing (202-1-4791)
נושאים בחישוב מונחה טבע
(mini-projects)
Semester B, 2007-2008
Lecturer: Prof. Moshe Sipper
IMPORTANT: |
1. Projects must be submitted by Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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2. No Extensions! (other than miluim/EXTENDED illness)
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3. You must decide upon a topic until June 1, otherwise 5 points will be taken off
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Popular Press
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ישראלים המציאו אלגוריתם שחמט המחקה את האבולוציה (Ynet, 29/7/2007, hebrew)
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המטריקס - בינתיים זה רק סרט (Nana, Part 1, 23/8/2004, hebrew)
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לך אל הנמלה, חוקר (Nana, Part 2, 30/8/2004, hebrew)
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Machine Nature (New Scientist, 28/9/2002)
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Computer Design Meets Darwin (Science, 26/9/1997)
Project Assignment
- Assaf Karmon, Achiya Elyassaf: Rush Hour puzzle
- Yonatan Ashkenazi, Doron Meir, Ami Magid: Netflix
- Tomer Barkan, Gil-Ad Ben-Or: Neural Network Othello
- Irena Farberov, Andrey Terushkin: Finding a
Balanced Diet in Fractal World
- Dan Kogan, Itzik Hav: Mountains or Molehills
- Omer Hertz (late registration): A 2D Packing Problem
Course Description
- Students will work on software projects in the area of evolutionary computation.
Manadatory Reading
General Reference
Administrative Details
Final Report (please read this carefully!)
- The final report must include the following seven 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.
- Some interesting conclusions.
- Bibliographic references.
- Language: Hebrew or English.
- Length: 10-20 pages.
- Don't include the code.
- Don't send the report by e-mail: hand in a hard copy.
(Evolving) List of Projects:
- Choose one of the competitions from this year's two main conferences in the field of evolutionary computation:
- Evolution of lose checkers players (project guided by
Amit Benbassat).
- Evolution of chess players (project guided by
Ami Hauptman).
- Apply an evolutionary algorithm to one of the puzzles in this
survey paper.
Last updated: August 3, 2008