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	
MI289	Advanced Methods in Evolutionary Computing	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
2	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

IV. Course contents
Some advanced EC models are studied:
1. Non-standard population models
2. Adaptive parameter setting
3. Encoding solutions - advanced models
4. Parallel implementations
5. Adaptive encoding
6. Evolutionary multimodel optimisation
7. Co-evolutionary population models
8. Evolutionary learning
9. Cultural algorithms	

V. Bibliography
DUMITRESCU,D.,B Lazzerini,Evolutionary Computation, CRC Press, New York, Boca Raton, 2000
DUMITRESCU, D.,Principiile  Inteligentei artificiale,  Editura Albastra, Cluj,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
BACK, T. FOGEL,.D.B., Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, Oxford University Press, New York, 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.
DUMITRESCU, D., Evolutionary Optimization, to appear.

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.