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Disclaimer: We may get ahead of (or fall behind) this schedule, I will try to keep this up to date but regardless, homework topics will follow the actual lecture topic pace.
| Week | Topics | Homework | Reading | Special Events and Due Dates | Slides & Lecture Notes |
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| 1 (1/13+15) | Introduction, search / metaheuristic optimization | NIOA Ch. 1; Russell & Norvig (R&N) Ch. 3.5-3.6 | Slides (1), Slides (2), Slides (3) | ||
| 2 (1/X+X) | Optimization formulation, hill-climbing, analysis of optimization algorithms | NIOA Ch. 1; Ch. 2.1-2.2 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
| 3 (1/X, 2/X) | Random walks, basics of cybernetics, algorithmic perspectives | HW #1 | NIOA Ch. 2.1-2.2; Ch. 3.1-3.2, 3.4 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
| 4 (X/X+X) | Stochasticity, simulated annealing | NIOA Ch. 4 | Slides (2) | ||
| 5 (X/X+X) | Genetic algorithms, differential evolution | Final Project Assigned | NIOA Ch. 5 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
| 6 (X/X+X) | Differential evolution | HW #2 | NIOA Ch. 5, Ch. 6 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
| 7 (X/X+X) | Project proposal talks | ||||
| 8 (X/X+X) | Particle swarm optimization, the firefly algorithm | NIOA Ch. 7, Ch. 8 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
| 9 (X/X+X) | Spring Break (3/8 through 3/15) | ||||
| 10 (X/X+X) | Guest Talk: William Gebhardt (NEAT evolution) | HW #3 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
| 11 (X/X+X) | Discrete inputs, bat algorithms | NOIA Ch. 10 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
| 12 (X/X+X) | Team paper talks | HW #4 | NIOA Ch. 11, Ch. 14, Ch. 15.3 | ||
| 13 (X/X+X) | Harmony search | NOIA Ch. 15.3 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
| 14 (X/X+X) | Team paper talks, flowers & multi-objective optimzation | NOIA Ch. 14 | Slides (1) | ||
| 15 (X/X+X) | Team paper talks, concluding remarks | Slides (1) | |||
| 16 (X/X) | Final Exam - X/X, 1:30:4pm | Final Exam Project | |||