The transparencies used in the lectures of the class can be checked out from the mail library reserve desk in the third floor. The following 7 sets: Set 0 through Set 3 of teaching material will be available no later than Friday, August 29, 10:00. The remaining sets will be made available during the course of the semester.

• Set 0: Organization and Topics of COSC 6377 (8 pages)
• Set 1: Introduction to GA and EP(36 pages)
• Set 2: Numerical Optimization and Evolution Strategy (14 pages)
• Set 3: Other Genetic Operators and Diversity (9 pages)
• Set 4: Application of GAs to the Travelling Salesman Problem (38 pages)
• Set 5: Visualizing GAs (13 pages)
• Set 6: Genetic-based Machine Learning and Classifier Systems (49 pages)
• Set 7: Coevolution, Meta-learning, and other Multi-level Learning Strategies
• Set 8: Artificial Life and Cellular Automata
• Set 9: Emergent Behavior
• Set 10: Simulation of Biological Systems

More sets will be added to the teaching material during the second half of the Spring 1997 semester. Sometimes for enhancing the quality of the class new transparencies will be used that are not in the library set. Moreover, some transparencies that basically cover the contents of the textbook in word by word fashion are also not included in the teaching material. Furthermore, in a few lectures the black board (and not transparencies) are used.