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

Dr. Nils Goerke

Mondays and Wednesdays 9-11

Lecture Hall: HS-C

Exercises: 2 hours per week; details to be announced

Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird auch als Modul (MA-INF 4201) im Masterstudiengang angeboten und daher ggf. in Englisch gehalten.

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.