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

Dr. Nils Goerke

Mondays 8:30-10:00 (for Master Students)

Montags und Mittwochs 8:30-10:00 (fü Diplomstudierende)

Lecture Hall: HS 2

Link to the

Exercises

Re-Sitting of Exam

Re-sitting of the exam will be on
Thursday, 6.Octobre 2011, 9:00-10:40, room, E.23, LBH
Results will be available on Tuesday, 11.10.2011, afternoon.
Exam inspection is possible on Tuesday, 11.10.2011, 16:00-17:30, Room I.42a and on Wednesday 12.10.2011, 16:00-17:30, Room I.42a

Hinweis für Diplom Studierende:

Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird auch als Modul (MA-INF 4201) im Masterstudiengang angeboten und daher in Englisch gehalten.
Die 4V+2Ü Vorlesung Artificial Life (B)[B4] wird gemeinsam mit der Mastervorlesung MA-INF 4201 angeboten. Der Mischbetrieb ist wie folgend organisiert:
Vorlesung Montag: für Master MA-INF 4201 und Diplom Studierende gemeinsam.
Vorlesung Mittwoch: für Diplom Studierende.
Die aktive Teilnahme an den Übungen ist Pflicht.
Es wird wahrscheinlich Übungen in Englisch und wahlweise in Deutsch geben, die Prüfungen werden in Deutsch erfolgen.

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 written exam (graded) for this module.
Exercises:

Group:	Day	Time	Room	Building
A	Wed	12:15 - 13:45	A6a	Roemerstr 164
B	Thu	12:30 - 14:00	E.23	LBH, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144
C	Fri	8:30 - 10:00	A6a	Roemerstr 164
D(ipl)	Do	8:30 - 10:00	A6a	Römerstr 164

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.