Lecture Artificial Life (4V+2Ü) (MA-INF 4201) [B4]

Dr. Nils Goerke

Mondays and Wednesdays 9-11

Lecture Hall: HS 2

Exercises: 2 hours per week

Special Information for Master Students:

Please notice: There are no prerequisites for Master of Computer Science students for this module in Summer 2010.
The lecture Artificial Life, MA-INF 4201 together with the Exercises will give 4 credit points.
The lecture is organised as 4hrs lecture plus 2 hrs exercises per week in the time from Wed 21 April 2010 to Fr 18 June 2010.
The lecture starts on: Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 9:00 o'clock, Lecture Hall HS 2.
The dates for the oral examinations can be arranged on an individual basis in June or July 2010.

Hinweis für Diplom Studierende:

Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird auch als Modul (MA-INF 4201) im Masterstudiengang angeboten und daher in Englisch gehalten.
Es wird wahrscheinlich Übungen in Englisch und wahlweise in Deutsch geben, die Prüfungen werden in Deutsch erfolgen.
Die Vorlesung Artificial Life, MA-INF 4201 [B4] gemeinsam mit den Übungen wird mit 8 Leistungspunkten im Diplomstudiengang Informatik (neue DPO) gewertet.
Start der Vorlesung ist: Montag, 12.4.2010, 9:00 Uhr, HS 2.

Content:

This lecture is part of the intelligent systems track of the master programme "Computer Science". It is open for CS diploma students [B4].

The lecture gives an overview over the most prominent aspects of artificial life research from the foundations, including strong and weak artificial life, via the most prominent topics of artificial life to the state of the art and to current applications.

The following topics will be presented and discussed in detail:
Cellular automata, Conway's "Game of Life", mechanisms for structure development and pattern formation, basics of nonlinear systems, Lindenmeyer Systems, evolutionary methods, and genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, artificial immune systems, adaptive behaviour, self-organising criticality, swarming behaviour, swarm intelligence.

Exercises:

The exercises are designed to intensify the work with the research topics presented within the lecture. You will get weekly paper-and-pencil exercises that shall be worked on in two person groups and completed within one week. Your results to the assignments presentation and discussion of the results of the weekly homework during the exercises; small tasks to be completed using state of the art simulation tools and programms implemented individually.

Successful exercise participation (not graded) is a prerequisite for participating at the oral exam (graded) for this module.

Group:	Day:	Time:	Room:	remark:
A	Wed/Mi	11 - 13	A6b	-
B	Thu/Do	11 - 13	A6b	-
C	Thu/Do	15 - 17	A7a	-
D	Fri/Fr	09 - 11	A7a	-
E	Fri/Fr	11 - 13	A7a	-
F	Fri/Fr	13 - 15	A7a	-

Literature:

Unfortunately no text-book is at the moment available for this module.
Most necessary literature will be named during the lecture.

C. Adami: Introduction to Artificial Life, Springer-Verlag New York, 1998
D. Floreano and C. Mattiussi: Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, The MIT Press, 2008.
E.Bonabeau, M.Dorigo, G.Theraulaz: Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems, Oxford University Press.