Biologically Inspired Computing

Revision lecture

DWC Examinable material

Basic info on exam

Your questions

Everything is still here:

www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dwcorne/

Find my Teaching Materials, and go on from there.

Or go straight to:http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dwcorne/Teaching/bic.html

Examinable material (DWC)BIC vs classicalProblem complexity

EAsSteady state / generational NeighbourhoodsLandscapes

MutationCrossoverSelectionEncodingsBetter encodings for grouping problems

Emergent behaviourReynold’s rules

ACO

PSO

CAs

All my lectures

(ppts in the green slots)

And

Exam

Answer 3 questions from 4

Can’t promise, but you would normally expect that the share of the teaching is more or less reflected in the share of the questions.

Prior BIC papers are a bit different

BIC used to be DC, PV and PF (Pier Frisco), a third eachPier taught molecular computing / DNA computing.Obviously your exam paper won’t have any questions on that!

2011 paper

2012 paper