Math 378 Syllabus

Text:Optimization and Modeling with Artificial Life
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Topics (*time permitting) (+brief coverage):

  1. Design of Simple Evolutionary Algorithms, Chapter 2.
  2. Optimizing Real Valued Functions, Chapter +3.
  3. SUNBURN/VIP: Co-evolving Strings, Chapter 4.
  4. Symbots: simple neural nets, Chapter 5.
  5. Finite state machines and games, Chapter 6.
  6. Ordered Structures, Chapter 7.
  7. Introduction to Genetic Programming, Chapter 8.
  8. Discrete Robotics, Chapter 10,*12.
  9. Cellular Encoding, Chapter *14.
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