COSC 5P71 Seminar Schedule and Topics
Seminars are about 25-30 minutes in length, with additional time for questions.
Schedule
- Tuesday November 29
- Thursday December 1
- Disciplus/AIM GP (Stephen Asobiela)
- GP and GPUs (Manas Ghosh)
Topics
This is a list of ideas for seminar topics.
You can select from these, or submit your own.
Please let me know your final topic once you know it.
- Advanced evolution ideas (wrt genetic programming)
- parallelism
- niching and speciation
- Multiobjective
- Hybrid evolution (eg. memetic algorithms)
- GAs with diploidy, dominance
- Mutation and GP
- Lamarckian evolution
- The Baldwin Effect
- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA) for GP
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- Genetic programming
- linear encoding
- cellular encoding
- machine language
- grammatical
- typed
- parallel
- distributed
- co-evolution and parasites
- visualization and interfaces
- GPUs
- Misc
- Tree initialization
- Effects of random number generator quality on GP
- Comparing GP with other paradigms (search, neural networks, ...)
- Applications
- Software engineering
- Computer science
- Artificial Life (Alife)
- Evolutionary design
- Scientific and engineering applications
- Bioinformatics
- Music
- Art and graphics
- Robotics