Genetic Algorithms

Administration
- Makeup class will meet Wednesday Dec. 10 at 1:00 p.m. in SEM201. Monday presenters will present on Wednesday.
- Final Class Meeting is Noon - 2:00 p.m. Monday Dec 14.
- Sample: Parallel GA code
- Info on our cluster
- Nov 9, 2009: Dr. Louis is sick, class Cancelled. Please work on your projects.
- Questions of the day (10/26)
  - Is the averaging operator a good simulation of binary crossover ?
  - The road network model could use the Minimal Spanning Tree algorithm as a starting point? Why or Why not?
- Extra credit if you participate in our session in today's class
- IGA session is Oct 21
- Questions for the day (10/19), due Wed Oct 21
  - What is the fundamental problem addressed by the three methods in Rosin and Belew's paper?
  - Why did the Checker's player use a neural net?
- Mark, Ivan present on co-evolution Oct 19
- IGA session is Oct 21
- Questions for the day (10/12), due Monday Oct 19
  - An example function that is BSO and GA-easy
  - An example function that is GA-Hard
- Oct 14: Presentation on Interactive GA research at UNR
- Oct 28: Class in SEM 347
- Postponed until next week Oct 14: Demonstration of Interactive Genetic Algorithms in SEM211.
- September 2: Presentation by Pippa Avery
- September 2: Assignment 1 posted, due Sept 16
- The Syllabus in html, in postscript, and in pdf .
- Papers to present
- Project web pages

Course Material
- Assignment 3 Due October 19. NOW due OCT 26.
- Assignment 2 Due September 23
- Assignment 1 Due September 16.
- Assignment 0 Due September 9. Please hand in your assignment on a single sheet of paper in class with your name and email address at the top.

Notes introducing GAs

Resources
- comp.ai.genetic FAQ
- Software: GA code for you!. Now with code for CIGAR systems.
- A pointer to the Evolutionary Computing Systems LAB (ECSL) that hosts research carried out in the CS department on Evolutionary Computation
- Writing: Pointers on how to write the final report as well as the guidelines and standards you must follow in writing your report (from Tina Hudson at Rose-Hulman).
- A sample Latex template and associated files and figures.
- A sample project report in html and in postscript.
- Links to other GA related sites and the Yahoo index on genetic algorithms.
- Help on tools for this course (gnuplot, xgraph. etc)
- The GaDigest mailing list, that you should all subscribe to. This is Volume 9 number 18 and like all issues contains subscription information
- How to make a web page and the Yale style guide to developing web pages .

Last modified: Fri Mar 25 13:59:51 PST 2005