| 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. |