Artificial Intelligence II, two classes

Márk Jelasity, Spring Semester, 2011, Szeged, Hungary

Evolutionary computing: algorithms and example applications

Lecture notes

My hand-written notes can be found here. From these notes only some parts have been presented during the two classes. The presented material is covered in the papers below as well.

Reading material

• Kumar Chellapilla and David B. Fogel. Evolving an expert checkers playing program without using human expertise. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 5(4):422–428, 2001. (doi:10.1109/4235.942536)
• A. E. Eiben and Jim E. Smith. Introduction to Evolutionary Computing. Springer, 2003.
• Hans-Georg Beyer and Hans-Paul Schwefel. Evolution strategies: A comprehensive introduction. Natural Computing, 1(1):3–52, 2002. (doi:10.1023/A:1015059928466)

Videos

The videos shown at class can be seen below, and can also be downloaded from their original source: Karl Sims' video and the Electric Sheep website, along with a large number of other "sheep". The papers below describe the algorithmic background of the videos.

• Scott Draves. The electric sheep screen-saver: A case study in aesthetic evolution. In Applications on Evolutionary Computing, volume 3449 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 458–467. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2005. EvoMUSART Contributions. (doi:10.1007/b106856)
• Karl Sims. Evolving virtual creatures. In Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH'94), pages 15–22, New York, NY, USA, 1994. ACM. (doi:10.1145/192161.192167)

Jelasity Márk
Mon Mar 28 10:35:00 CEST 2011