CS-453: Schedule
Date
Activities
Monday, Dec 6
Presentation and discussion of:
MACS-VRPTW: A Multiple Ant Colony System for Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
by Gambardella, Taillard, and Agazzi.
Dynamic Scheduling and Division of Labor in Social Insects
by Campos, Bonabeau, Theraulaz, and Deneubourg.
Tuesday, Dec 7
Presentation and discussion of:
Design of Bucket Brigade Production lines
by Bartholdi, Eisenstein, Jacobs-Blecha, and Ratliff.
Section 2.3 (Ant Colony Optimization: The Traveling Salesperson Problem) from the book
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems
by Bonabeau, Dorigo, and Theraulaz
Thursday, Dec 9
Presentation and discussion of:
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en507/papers_2001/bono.htm
SI Book: Sections 3.1 - 3.3: Task allocation and division of labor (fixed threshold)
http://www.coro.caltech.edu/Courses/EE150/Week4/OH_W4FixedTaskAlloc.pdf
Friday, Dec 10
Presentation and discussion of:
SI Book: Section 3.4: Task allocation and division of labor (variable threshold)
http://www.coro.caltech.edu/Courses/EE150/Week4/AM_W4AdaptTaskAlloc.pdf
SI Book: Sections 5.1 - 5.3: Self-Organization
http://www.coro.caltech.edu/Courses/EE150/Week5/AM_W5InsectBuilding.pdf