Computer Science (COMP)
School of Computer Science
Faculty of Science
COMP 4107 [0.5 credit]
Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life
Study of algorithms based upon biological theories of evolution, applications to machine learning and optimization problems. Genetic Algorithms, Classifier Systems, and Genetic Programming in details. Recent work in the fields of Artificial Life (swarm intelligence, distributed agents, behavior-based AI) and of connectionism is also studied.
Prerequisite:
COMP 3007 and
COMP 4106.
Lectures three hours a week.