Lectures


 * **S.#** || **Date** || **Day** || **Topics** || **Downloads** || **Comments** ||
 * 1 || 2/2/12 || Thursday || Course Overview, Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence, Global and Local Optima || [[file:CI Unit 1.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 2 || 6/2/12 || Monday || Mutation and Crossover Operators, Representation, Overview of Parent and Survival Selection Mechanism, Traveling Salesman Problem || [[file:CI Unit 2.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 3 || 9/2/12 || Thursday || Order 1 Crossover, Swap and Insert Mutations, N-Queen Problem || [[file:CI Unit 3.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 4 || 13/2/12 || Monday || Selection Schemes: Fitness Proportional Selection, Rank-based Selection, Tournament Selection, Age-based and Fitness-based Survival Selection, Truncation, Elitism, Hall of Fame || [[file:CI Unit 4.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 5 || 16/2/12 || Thursday || Assignment # 1 Explanation (Working of the Whole Algorithm), Evaluation of Evolutionary Algorithms, Average Best-so-far curves, Box-plots || [[file:CI Unit 5.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 6 || 20/2/12 || Monday || Mutation/Crossover Operators for Binary/Integer/Floating/Permutation Representation, No Free Lunch Theorem || [[file:CI Unit 6.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 7 || 23/2/12 || Thursday || Random Numbers in Excel/C#, Uniform vs. Gaussian Random Numbers, History of Evolutionary Algorithms: Evolutionary Programming, Evolution Strategy, Genetic Algorithms || [[file:CI Unit 7.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 8 || 27/2/12 || Monday || Evolutionary Programming (EP) and Evolution Strategy (ES), Recombination Operators in ES, Mutation in EP and ES, Selection Mechanism || [[file:CI Unit 8.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 9 || 1/3/12 || Thursday || Genetic Algorithms: Selection Mechanism, Mutation and Crossover operators, Binary Representation, Advantage and disadvantage || [[file:CI Unit 9.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 10-11 || 4/3/12 || Sunday || Assignment #1(a) Presentation ||  ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || **Midterm I Break** ||   ||   ||
 * 12 || 15/3/12 || Thursday || Particle Swarm Optimization: Motivation, Theory and Working of Algorithm, Comparison between EA and PSO || [[file:CI Unit 10.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 13 || 19/3/12 || Monday || Artificial Immune Systems: Motivation, Theory and Working of Algorithm || [[file:CI Unit 11.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 14 || 22/3/12 || Thursday || Ant Colony Optimization: Motivation, Theory and Working of Algorithm, TSP using ACO || [[file:CI Unit 12.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 15 || 26/3/12 || Monday || Assignment 1(b) Discussion, Constrained Optimization || [[file:CI Unit 13.pdf]] ||  ||
 * ||  ||   || **No Class - Strike in the City** ||   ||   ||
 * || 2/4/12 || Monday || **No Class - Out of Town** ||  ||   ||
 * || 5/4/12 || Thursday || **No Class - Out of Town** ||  ||   ||
 * 16 || 9/4/12 || Monday || Discussion on Assignments 1(c) Neural Networks || [[file:CI Unit 14.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 17 || 12/4/12 || Thursday || Neural Networks (Cont'd) ||  ||   ||
 * 18-19 || 15/4/12 || Sunday || Assignment #2 (Presentation) ||  ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || **Midterm II Break** ||   ||   ||
 * 20 || 26/4/12 || Thursday || Recurrent Neural Networks, Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search || [[file:CI Unit 15.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 21 || 30/4/12 || Monday || Differential Evolution, Artificial Bee Colony Optimization, Cuckoo Search Algorithm || [[file:CI Unit 16.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 22 || 3/5/12 || Thursday || Reinforcement Learning (Guest Lecture by Ms. Saleha Raza) || [[file:CI Unit 17.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 23 || 7/5/12 || Monday || Reinforcement Learning (Cont'd) (Guest Lecture by Ms. Saleha Raza) ||  ||   ||
 * 24 || 10/5/12 || Thursday || Assignment # 3 Discussion, Fuzzy Logic: Fuzzy Sets, Membership Functions, Fuzzy Operators || [[file:CI Unit 18.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 25 || 14/5/12 || Monday || Fuzzy Inferencing Process: Fuzzification, Inferencing and Defuzzification ||  ||   ||
 * 26 || 17/5/12 || Thursday || Neuro Fuzzy Systems, Genetic Programming || [[file:CI Unit 19.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 27 || 21/5/12 || Monday || Project Presentation ||  ||   ||
 * 28 || 24/5/12 || Thursday || Project Presentation ||  ||   ||