Course Summary and Readings
| Date |
Session Topics |
Readings |
| 1/25 |
Nature-Inspired AI and ALife
Cellular Automata: Emergence & Self-Organization
|
Engelbrecht, Chap. 1
Wolfram: Cellular automata as models of complexity,
Nature, 311, 1984, 419-424
|
| 2/1 |
ALife: Self-Replicating Machines
ALife: Multi-Agent Systems
|
M. Sipper: Fifty years of research on self-replicating machines,
Artificial Life, 4, 1998, 237-257
A. Rodriguez et al: Extending self-organizing particle systems to
problem solving, Artificial Life, 10, 2004, 379-395
and
Engelbrecht, pp. 285-314
|
| 2/8 |
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University Closed (snow)
|
| 2/15 |
Neural Computation
Evolutionary Computation
|
Engelbrecht, Chap. 2 - 7
Engelbrecht, Chap. 8 - 15
Suggested Readings
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| 2/22 |
Self-Replicating Machines
|
Reading Assignments
|
| 3/1 |
Self-Assembly
|
Reading Assignments
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| 3/8 |
Ant Colony Optimization
Artificial Immune Systems
|
Reading Assignments
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| 3/15 |
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Spring Break
|
| 3/22 |
Echo State Networks
Long Short-Term Memory
|
Reading Assignments
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| 3/29 |
Self-Organizing Maps
|
Reading Assignments
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| 4/5 |
Oscillatory Networks
|
Reading Assignments
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| 4/12 |
Neurocognition
|
Reading Assignments
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| 4/19 |
Language Acquisition
|
Reading Assignments
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| 4/26 |
Evolution of Language
|
Reading Assignments
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| 5/3 |
Creative Evolutionary Design
Network Chromosomes
|
Reading Assignments
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| 5/10 |
Molecular & Quantum Computing
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Reading Assignments
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