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COMP 5206 – Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life

Study of algorithms based upon biological theories of evolution, applications to machine learning and optimization problems. Possible topics: Genetic Algorithms, Classifier Systems, and Genetic Programming. Recent work in the fields of Artificial Life (swarm intelligence, distributed agents, behavior-based AI) and of connectionism.

 

• Assignment 1 - Genetic Algorithm solutions for solving One-Max, Simple-Max and TSP
• Assignment 2
• Project - Ant Colony Optimization for the TSP and ATSP problems using either of the methods "Solving Symmetric and Asymmetric TSPs by Ant Colonies" by Luca Maria Gambardella and Marco Dorigo or Min-Max