| Week | Topics |
|---|---|
| 1 | Course Introduction Introduction to Swarm Intelligence Simple ant behavior |
| 2 | Complex ant behavior Ant Colony Optimization |
| 3 | Bee behavior Introduction to flocking behavior Simple flocking behavior Results of TSP experiments |
| 4 | Complex flocking behavior Particle Swarm Optimization Key characteristics of SI Developing a theory of SI Comparison and evaluation of Ant and Flocking systems |
| 5 | Presentation of project proposals High-level swarm applications |
| 6 | Evaluation of Swarm as an optimization technique Combination optimization techniques |
| 7 | Complex Systems |
| 8 | Swarm based economics
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| 9 | Interesting applications of SI |
| 10 | Project presentations |