Location: | Lecture: Centennial 1401 |
Time: | 1:10--2:05 PM Monday, Wednesday, Friday |
Professor: | David Mathias |
Office: | Wing Technology 212 |
Email: | dmathias AT uwlax DOT edu |
Office hours: | Monday and Friday: 2:15--3:15 Tuesday: 1:30--2:30 Wednesday: 12:05--1:00 |
Syllabus: | PDF format |
Textbook: | None |
Resources: | A few (possibly) useful items for students in this class. |
An introduction to the principles and applications of genetic algorithms (GAs). Topics include the biological inspiration for evolutionary computation and the origins of GAs; an overview of optimization problems; fundamentals of GAs and encoding a problem in a genome; common operators for reproduction, mutation and selection; multi-objective optimization and GA models for solving multi-objective problems; Pareto optimization; applications of GAs as well as current topics in the field.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
Additional information relevant to the course is available on the syllabus.