Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Study Cycle: Master
SUBJECT

Code	Subject	
MI287	Evolutionary Algorithms	

Section	Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Type	
Intelligent Systems - in English	1	2+2+0		compulsory	

Teaching Staff in Charge	Prof. DUMITRESCU Dan Dumitru, Ph.D., ddumitr@cs.ubbcluj.ro	
Aims	Supply an introduction to the field studied.
Give the basic notion, techniques and algorithms.
Supply the background for advanced courses.	
Content	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)	
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.
	
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