Introduction to Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Computation Module Tutorial 1

Introduction to Evolutionary Computation and EvolutionaryComputation ModuleTutorial 1V. Landassuri Morenov.landassuri moreno@cs.bham.ac.ukSchool of Computer ScienceUniversity of BirminghamOctober 12, 20091/1Outline2/1Tutorials / ExercisersWhy tutorials and exercisers?I They are intended to help you to understand in a better way the EvolutionaryAlgorithms (EAs).Objective:I It is expected that the student programme the EAs presented in the lectures andcompare them, well, that will depending of the student’s level.I Note that is not compulsory that students programme an EA, but programme itwill give you a better understanding in the filed.Organization:I During the term, there is going to be 6 tutorials and 10 exercisers. For the duedates of Tutorials you can check the web page of the module:http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pkl/teaching/2009/ec/Tutorials / Exercisers 3/1I The exercises are intended to be weekly, with the exception of the first one. Soevery Monday it is going to be delivery one exercise and the due date its going tobe the next Monday before the lecture/tutorial (i.e. before 11am), e.g. Exercise 2is given they 12/10/09, due date Monday 19/10/09 before 11am.I The marked exercisers are going to be returned by email and at the end of theterm its going to send you a final mark. Note that the marked exercisers will nothave any effect in you final evaluation.I Even if the exercise are not going to count in your final mark, they will give you ...