Teaching and Reading Plan Spring 2001
Lecture Plan (subject to change)
Jan. 16: Goals of the Course
Jan. 18: Walk Through Example Evolutionary Computing
Jan. 23: EC Introduction I
Jan. 25: Discussion of Project1, EC Introduction II
Jan. 30: Leftovers + Schema Theorem
Feb. 1: Brief Intro. to Genetic Programming and
View Genetic Programming
Video
Feb. 6: Hill Climbing and Simulated Annealing
Feb. 8: Transportation Problems, More on Project1
Feb. 13: Transportation Problems, Numerical Optimization I
Feb. 15: Numerical Optimization II
Feb. 20: Numerical Optimzation III
Feb. 22: Diversity and Leftovers
Feb. 27: Quiz1
March 1: Travelling Salesman Problem (chapter 10)
March 6: Travelling Salesman Problem (Project1 is due)
March 8: Evolutionary Machine Learning I
Spring Break
March 20: Paper_Walk Through
March 22: Evolutionary Machine Learning II (XCS)
March 27: PaperWalkThrough, Quiz1
March 29: Main Exam
April 3: Examples of Artificial Life Systems (Video)
April 5: Artificial Life Student Demos
April 10: Artificial Life Student Demos
April 12: More for Project2 and Discussion on Artificial Life
April 17: Evolutionary Computing and Genetics
April 19: TBDL
April 24: More on Genetic Programming (including a short video)
April 26: Quiz2
Reading and Work Plan (subject to change)
Do the following no later than:
January 19: Read Chapter 1 and 2 of the textbook,
obtain Set1 and Set2 of the transparencies
January 22: Read Chapters 1 and 2 of the "Flying Circus
Tutorial"; read specification of project1, obtain
Set3 of the transparencies
January 28: Read Chapter 3 of the textbook
January 31: Read Chapter 5 of the textbook
February 5: Start working on Project 1
Februay 7: Read Chapters 9 of textbook
February 13: Read Chapter 6, 7, and 8 of the textbook
February 28: Read Chapter 10 of book
March 8: Read additional machine learning material
March 18: Read Work_Through Paper
March 20: Read XCS Paper
last updated: April 11, 2001