Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Informatică
Programul de studii: Informatică - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MI078	Evolutionary Computing in Artificial Intelligence	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
7	2+0+2		optional	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
DUMITRESCU Dan Dumitru	Ph.D.	Prof.	Programming  Languages and Methods	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
The basic paradigms, techniques and algorithms of Evolutionary computing are presented 
The relationship of Evolutionary Computing and Artificial Intelligence is investigated.

IV. Course contents
1. Evolutionary Computing . Evolutionary algorithms,  mainstreams of EC
2. Genetic algorithms,  binary representation,  search operators,  population models,  basic GA
3. Learning machines, basic LM techniques
4. Decision trees, binary DT, generalized DT, evolutionary design of DT
5. Evolutionary clustering, one level clustering, hierarchical clustering, dynamic clustering
6. Evolutionary pattern recognition
7. Evolutionary learning in AI
8. Evolutionary neural network, evolutionary design of NN	

V. Bibliography
DUMITRESCU,D.,B Lazzerini,Evolutionary Computation, CRC Press, New York, Boca Raton, 2000
DUMITRESCU,D.,B Lazzerini,Fuzzy Sets and treir Application in Training and Clustering , CRC Press, New York, Boca Raton, 2000
DUMITRESCU, D.,Principiile  Inteligentei artificiale,  Editura Albastra, Cluj,2000.
DUMITRESCU, D.,Principiile  teoriei clasificarii,  Editura Academiei, Bucuresti,2000.
DUMITRESCU, D.,Algoritmi genetici si strategii evolutive. Aplicatii in Inteligenta      Artificiala,  Editura Albastra, Cluj,2000.
DUMITRESCU, D., Inteligenta artificiala,  Univ. "Babes-Bolyai", 1995.
DUMITRESCU, D., Modele conexioniste in Inteligenta Artificiala, Univ. "Babes-Bolyai", 1995.
DUMITRESCU, D., Retele Neuronale, Teora, 1997
GOLDBERG, D. E., Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization , and Machine Learning, Addison , Reading, 1989.
MICHALEVICZ, Z., Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs, Springer, Berlin, 1992.

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
continuous examination, small project	

IX. Additional references

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Prof. DUMITRESCU Dan Dumitru, Ph.D.