CPSC 5307 Winter 2010

Wk	Date	Topics	Readings	Due
			M & F	Ass't	Project
	4-Jan	Representing Hard Problems and Measuring performance	chapter 1
1	6-Jan	Representing Hard Problems and Measuring performance
	11-Jan	Exhaustive Search Local Search	chapter 2
2	13-Jan	Exhaustive Search Local Search	chapter 3	Asst 1
	18-Jan	Escaping local optima	chapter 5
3	20-Jan	Escaping local optima
	25-Jan	Search by partial solutions
4	27-Jan	Search by partial solutions	chapter 4		Doc Stage 1
	1-Feb	Constraint satisfaction - basic concepts	handouts
5	3-Feb	Stage 1 presentations			Presentation 1
	8-Feb	Constraint propegation problems		Asst 2
6	10-Feb	n Queens and puzzles
	15-Feb	STUDY WEEK
	17-Feb	STUDY WEEK
	22-Feb	Evolutionary strategies	chapter 6	Asst 3
7	24-Feb	Design of an evolutionary solution	chapter 7		Doc Stage 2
	1-Mar
8	3-Mar	TSP with GAs	chapter 8
	8-Mar		Lewis paper
9	10-Mar	constraints in evolutionary algorithms	ch 9.1 only	Asst 4
	15-Mar
10	17-Mar	Multiple objectives	chapter 15
	22-Mar
11	24-Mar	Co-evolution	chapter 14
	29-Mar				Presentation 3
12	31-Mar			Asst 5	Presentation 3
	TBA				Doc Stage 3