Lecture Artificial Life (2V+2Ü) (MA-INF 4201)

Dr. Nils Goerke

Mondays 8:30 - 10:00

Lecture hall: III.03a, LBH Building, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144

Results from the second examination are available on Monday 21.9.2015

Sorry for the delay.

Exam inspection will be possible on:
Tuesday 22.9.2015, 11:00 -12:00, Room E.23, LBH
and
Wednesday 23.9.2015, 12:00 - 13:00, Room I.42, LBH
and by appointment.

In general it is helpful, to go to the exam inspection, to see the mistakes, and to get some feedback.

Re-Seit examination:
Tuesday 8. September 2015, 10:00 - 11:40
LBH: III.03a

Link to the Exercises

Content :

This lecture is part of the intelligent systems track of the master programme "Computer Science".

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 to structure development and pattern formation, basics of nonlinear systems, Lindenmeyer Systems, evolutionary methods, and genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, adaptive behaviour, self-organising criticality, swarming behaviour, swarm intelligence, ant algorithms, particle swarm optimization.

Exercises on a voluntary basis:

Wer offer exercises (on a voluntary basis) to intensify the work with the research topics presented in the lecture. You will get weekly paper-and-pencil assignments that are designed to be worked on in two person groups and completed within one week. Your results of the assignments will be presented and discussed during the exercise group. The paper and pencil assignments are accompanied by small programming tasks to be completed using state of the art simulation tools and individually implemented programms.

Exercise participation is voluntary but highly recommended to prepare for the written exam (graded) for this module. 

Written Examination:

Beside registering for the module in BASIS, there are NO extra requirements to be admitted to the exam.
In general, working carefully on the assignments is a good preparation for the exam. 

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.