Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Masterat
Domeniul: Informatica
Programul de studii: Sisteme inteligente (în limba engleză)
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MI287	Evolutionary Algorithms 	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
1	2+2+0		compulsory	

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
Supply an introduction to the field studied.
Give the basic notion, techniques and algorithms.
Supply the background for advanced courses.	

IV. Course contents
1. Genetic algorithms (GAs)
2. Selection
3. Search operators for GAs
4. Population models
5. Parametter setting
6. Evolution strategies
7. Evolutionary programming
8. GAs for optimization problems (real, combinatorial, multimodal, multicriteria)	

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.
GOLDBERG, D. E., Genetic Algorithm. Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1989.
MICHALEWICZ, Z., Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs, Springer, Berlin, 1992.

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

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