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To let students have a basic understanding of swarm intelligence principles
Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with natural and artificial systems composed of many individuals that coordinate using decentralized control and self-organization. In particular, the discipline focuses on the collective behaviors that result from the local interactions of the individuals with each other and with their environment. Examples of systems studied by swarm intelligence are colonies of ants and termites, schools of fish, flocks of birds, herds of land animals. Some human artifacts also fall into the domain of swarm intelligence, notably some multi-robot systems, and also certain computer programs that are written to tackle optimization and data analysis problems. The course will present a number of swarm intelligence systems and will give the opportunity to experiment with them.
Introduction to Swarm Intelligence
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
The TSP solved using Ant System
S22 - Lesson 01 - Thu 16.02.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - IRIDIA Seminars room
S22 - Lesson 02 - Thu 16.02.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - IRIDIA Seminars room
S23 - Lesson 03 - Thu 23.02.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - IRIDIA Seminars room
S23 - Lesson 04 - Thu 23.02.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - IRIDIA Seminars room
S24 - Lesson 05 - Thu 02.03.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
S24 - Lesson 06 - Thu 02.03.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
S25 - Lesson 07 - Thu 09.03.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
S25 - Lesson 08 - Thu 09.03.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
S26 - Lesson 09 - Thu 16.03.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
S26 - Lesson 10 - Thu 16.03.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
S27 - Lesson 11 - Thu 23.03.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - IRIDIA Seminars room
S27 - Lesson 12 - Thu 23.03.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
S28 - Lesson 11 - Thu 30.03.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - IRIDIA Seminars room
S28 - Lesson 12 - Thu 30.03.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
s31 - Lesson 13 - Thu 20.04.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - IRIDIA Seminars room
s31 - Lesson 14 - Thu 20.04.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
s32 - Lesson 15 - Thu 27.04.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
s32 - Lesson 16 - Thu 27.04.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
s33 - Lesson 17 - Thu 04.05.2017 - 2:00pm-4:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
s33 - Lesson 18 - Thu 04.05.2017 - 4:00pm-6:00pm - Room S.UB4.329A
At the exam you will present the results of your project using a powerpoint-like presentation of exactly 7 minutes. Please bring your own portable computer. The rest of the exam will consist of a question answering session on all the subjects covered by the course.
Project description (second session)
ACO project training instances
The deadline to deliver the project is August 27, 2016, please follow the instructions provided. Please remind that there are 2 points of penalty for each day of delay in the submission of the project (this means, 2 points lost if you deliver after the deadline and until 24h delay, and so on). No exceptions.
Ex cathedra and projects. Course taught in English.