Schedule Oct 09, 2002
If Darwin Had Been a Programmer -- Evolutionary Design by Computers
Dr. Christian Jacob, University of Calgary
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jacob/
Nature offers an amazing, yet largely unexplored, repertoire of approaches to build complex and elaborate systems. Instead of composing its entities from pre-fabricated parts, nature uses alternative approaches to explore design solutions for the creation of its organisms as, e.g., structure formation, growth, self-assembly, self-organization, emergence, and evolution. This presentation will illustrate how to 'breed' computer programs and how to utilize evolutionary techniques for emergent computation through 'swarm intelligence' systems.

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