Week 02: Jan 21 - Jan 27

Interactive session, Monday Jan 27

Slides from the interactive session will appear here (there is no new syllabus here - the main syllabus is covered in the slides and video below)

Video lectures

Syllabus: Eiben&Smith Chapter 3-4 (except 3.6 and 4.4.2)

Slides

Videos:

Note: The videos and slides for this and the coming weeks may be numbered a bit differently than the week of the course we are currently in. Don't worry about the numbering :)

1. Introduction to evolution
2. Evolutionary algorithms
3. Components of an evolutionary algorithm
4. Binary, integer and real-valued representations
5. Permutation and tree-based representations
6. Example of a simple evolutionary algorithm

Weekly exercises

• Exercises
• Solution