CS 652 Emergent and Adaptive Computation
Evolutionary Computation Project Description

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You will have one semester project to complete in this course.
In your first one:

• Identify a relevant area of interest in genetic algorithms,
  cellular automata, swarm algorithms, or ant colony algorithms,
  or other evolutionary/adaptive computing paradigm subject to
  discussion and approval by the instructor. You will be given
  a table of contents for two years' worth of conference proceedings
  to help you in selecting both a topic and at least 3 articles of
  reference material.
  Once you select those, you can get copies of the papers themselves from
  the instructor. You may also find other sources of material, but please
  share them with the instructor before you proceed.
  
• Choose either to:
  • Implement from scratch one of the systems you find
    --In this case your experiments will be mostly concerned with demonstrating that your implementation supports the same behavior as the system you attempted to replicate
  • Extend an existing implementation of one of the systems you find
    --In this case your experiments need to demonstrate what you have found the system's behavior to be under the extensions you investigated
• Write a paper describing:
  • The basic area that your work is in
  • The particular software design/architecture/details of your work
  • The experiments you performed
  • A discussion of the results
  • Pointers to further steps and conclusion

A template for your papers, which includes details about how to present
your work, is available here:
Project Paper Template (WORD)



See the syllabus for deadlines.

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