| Week | Dates | Day | Topic | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mar. 6 - 10 | 1 | Introduction to Swarm Intelligence, course | |
| 2 | Overview of Swarm Intelligence for Business Applications, Simple ant behavior | BC: Review of Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think About Business | ||
| 3 | Overview of ant-based Swarm Intelligence | |||
| 4 | Representative Applications of Ant-based Swarm Intelligence | |||
| 2 | Mar. 13 - 17 | 5 | AS algorithm for TSP | |
| 6 | ACO algorithm for TSP | BC: Review of A Brief History of Stigmergy | ||
| 7 | Task allocation and division of labor | |||
| 8 | Project proposal social | |||
| 3 | Mar. 20 - 24 | 9 | Task allocation and division of labor
Self-Organization | |
| 10 | Flocking behavior, PSO | |||
| 11 | Work day: develop proposal, do background research | |||
| 12 | Project finalization
Visual and chemical stigmergy | |||
| 4 | Mar. 27 - 31 | 13 | Towards a unified theory of Swarm | |
| 14 | Paper opportunities | |||
| 15 | Nest building | |||
| 16 | Crowd dynamics | |||
| 5 | Apr. 3 - 7 | 17 | Bees and bee behavior | |
| 18 | Use case development | |||
| 19 | Honey Bee Group Decision Making | |||
| 20 | Work day | |||
| 6 | Apr. 17 - 21 | 21 | Honey Bee Group Decision Making | |
| 22 | Quorum Sensing in Honey Bees | |||
| 23 | Refining project proposal | |||
| 24 | Refining project proposal | |||
| 7 | Apr. 24 - 28 | 25 | Refining project proposal | |
| 26 | Work day | |||
| 27 | Human-AI Teaming | |||
| 28 | Human-AI Teaming | |||
| 8 | May 1 - 5 | 29 | Human-AI Teaming | |
| 30 | Complex Systems | |||
| 31 | Combination of GA, Hill-Climbing and PSO | |||
| 32 | Comparing GAs and PSO | |||
| 9 | May 8 - 12 | 33 | High-level swarm applications | |
| 34 | Project design finalization
Experiments to be conducted | |||
| 35 | Complex Systems | |||
| 36 | Discuss experiments, process and assign duties | |||
| 10 | May 15 - 19 | 37 | Work day | |
| 38 | High-level swarm apps
Project status | |||
| 39 | Work day | |||
| 40 | Course wrap-up
Course evals | Thursday, May 25, 5pm: Take-home exam |