Academic Catalog

CENG713 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

Course Code: 5710713
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(0-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Computer Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: PhD
Course Coordinator: Lecturer Dr. ONUR TOLGA ÞEHÝTOÐLU
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course offers basic knowledge about the class of evolutionary methods used in solving computer science problems. This includes genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, genetic programming, representations genetic operations, theory of evolutionary algorithms. Various approaches and applications of evolutionary computation to combinatorial optimization problems are given.