CSSE-490: Swarm Intelligence

CSSE-490: Week 6

Date	Activities
Monday, Jan 17	Presentation and discussion of: Parunak "Go to the Ant": Engineering Principles from Natural Multi-Agent Systems Wikipedia entry for Swarm behavior Swarms Review of Optimization Review of Hill Climbing Review of Genetic Algorithms
Tuesday, January 18	Presentation and discussion of: Comparison between Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization by Eberhart and Shi Presentation by Alice Forehand and Robert Pienta A Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization and the Genetic Algorithm by Hassan, Cohanim, de Weck, and Venter Presentation by Eric Reed
Thursday, January 20	Presentation and discussion of: The LifeCycle model: Combining Particle Swarm Optimisation, Genetic Algorithms, and Hill Climbers by Krink and Loevbjerg. Presentation by Nathan Weir
Friday, January 21	We will not meet in class today. Instead stop by my office to discuss the progress on your project