CSSE-490: Swarm Intelligence

CSSE-490: Week 7

Date	Activities
Monday, January 24	No class today. Instructor's wife needs to visit doctor.
Tuesday, January 25	Presentation and discussion of: Pheromone Modification Strategies for Ant Algorithms applied to Dynamic TSP Presentation by Aaron Blankenbaker Introduction to Complex Systems Wikipedia Entry Annoted contents of a book on complex systems Intro chapter of a book on Complex Systems Significant Points in the Study of Complex Systems
Thursday, January 27th	Presentation and discussion of: When Systems Engineering Fails - Toward Complex Systems Engineering Presentation by Chris Covert and Brian Sherman The Emergency Department as a Complex System Presentation by Ian Roberts
Friday, January 28th	Oral progress presentations in class. They should last about 7 minutes, give or take a few minutes. Feel free to show prototypes you have been working on. Give us a sense of the current status of your work, and challenges that you are currently working on and for which you would like to receive input, as well as what you plan to accomplish during the following week.