| Date | Topic | Readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/23 | Overview. Class requirements. | ||
| 1/25-2/11 | Advanced Search Techniques: Constructive search, Local search, etc. | Hoos and Stutzle, Chapters 1 and 2 | Search in PDF |
| 2/13-2/25 | Scheduling | Ch. 9 in
Hoos & Stutzle J.P. Watson. "The Job Shop Scheduling Problem", Ch. 2 in Empirical Modeling and Analysis of Local Search Algorithms for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem, Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Fall 2003. | Scheduling in PDF |
| 2/27-3/10 | Population Based Search: ACO, GAs, GP |
Hoos and Stutzle, Chapter 2, Whitley article, Statistics and Computing (4):65-85, 1994. Genetic Programming Tutorial | Population Based Search in PDF |
| 3/12 | Midterm I | ||
| 3/14, 3/31 | GAs (Cont.) | Darrell Whitley on GA theory | |
| 3/17-3/21 | Spring Break! | ||
| 3/24 | Agents | Marie desJardins guest speaker | |
| 3/26-28 | Project Progress Reports | ||
| 4/2-4/9 | Information Retrieval | IR in PDF | |
| 4/11-4/30 | Data Mining | Russell and Norvig Ch. 18 A.K. Jain, M.N. Murty, P.J. Flynn, "Data Clustering: A Review", ACM Computing Surveys, 31(3):264--323 through section 5.4, page number 280 (ignore section 5.1) R. Agrawal and R. Srikant, "Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules", In Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, 1994. | Data Mining in PDF |
| 4/21-4/23 | Dr. Howe out of town | ||
| 5/2 | Midterm II | ||
| 5/5 | Class Presentations: Shant Tashjean and Matthew St. John | ||
| 5/7 | Class Presentations: Malai Natarajan and John Stevens | ||
| 5/9 | Class Presentations: Douglas Moore | ||
| 5/13 | Paper Due by 3PM |