CSSE-490: Schedule

Week Topics
1 Course Introduction
Introduction to Swarm Intelligence
Simple Ant Behavior
2 Complex Ant Behavior
3 More complex ant behavior, Bee behavior, Introduction to flocking behavior
4 Key characteristics of SI, Flocking Behavior applied, Results of Forest fire experiments
5 Particle Swarm Optimization, Developing a theory of SI, Presentation of project proposals.
6 Evaluation of Swarm as an optimization technique
7 Complex Systems, Progress reports
8 High-level swarm applications, Progress presentations
9 Interesting applications of SI
10 Project presentations.