ID	Date	Announcement
18	May 23	Final Exam: • Final exam will be comprehensive exam. Theoretical questions will be in form of MCQs and TRUE/FALSE, complete, etc. • Material covered before the midterm will have weight of about 30%. • Numerical problems about graphically optimization [NOT INCLUDED] • Numerical problems about Graph Search Algorithms [NOT INCLUDED] • A problem about each of the studied metaheuristics algorithms [TS, SA, GA, PSO and ACO] will be included. • For these problems, you will be asked to generate an initial solution, define a suitable algorithm operators/parameters and perform one or 2 iterations of the algorithm. • Please try to organize your answer especially when you perform iterations. • Reading Materials [NOT INCLUDED] • Pseudo-codes [NOT INCLUDED] • Programming Exercises [NOT INCLUDED] • L11: Case Study-5: Multirobot Control [NOT INCLUDED] • No formula sheets will be included in the final exam booklet. • Study all the course materials very carefully including lectures, tutorials and projects. Good Luck!
17	May 9	Important: Project Submission and Presentation will take place on Wednesday May 15, 2013 starting from 10:00AM in B2.202. - Project Presentations rules are available here. - A hard-copy of the project report must be handed-over before the presentation. - Moreover in order to complete evaluating the project, project CD must be handed-over as well. - This CD must contain ALL materials related to the project (Complete documentation report according to the course policy mentioned here + a well documented source code and executable code with UserGuide that shows how to install and use the developed software + all the software packages used during the project development if any [NO Matlab license should be included]). - The order will be based on the registration list order. -Best wishes!
16	Apr. 23	Quiz#2 is now posted. Deadline is May 9.
15	Apr. 23	[Bonus] Mini-project-4 now posted. Deadline is May 13.
14	Apr. 4	Mini-project-3 now posted. Deadline is April 21.
13	Apr. 4	Assignment-3 is now posted. Deadline is April 18.
12	Apr. 2	A compensation lecture will be given on Thursday April 11 in the 1st slot in H6.
11	Apr. 2	A compensation lecture will be given on Thursday April 4 in the 1st slot in C2.102.
10	Mar. 14	Midterm Exam - Midterm exam will be a comprehensive exam. - Theoretical parts will be covered through MCQ, Complete and True/False questions - The exam will include a problem about Tabu Search (TS) and another one about Simulated Annealing (SA). - For these problems, you have to define a suitable representation for the problem solution (giving an example), define a suitable neighborhood operator (giving an example), define the objective function for calculating the cost/utility of the solution as well as the underlying constraints (giving an example), set algorithm parameters and perform ONE/TWO iterations of the TS/SA to show how the algorithm can be used to solve this problem. Good luck!
9	Mar. 13	Tutorials 3, 4 & 5 and their codes are now posted.
8	Mar. 9	Quiz#1 will take place this Tuesday March 12 in the 4th slot in H11. - Only Lectures 2 & 3 will be included in this quiz. - No theoretical questions will be included in this quiz. Good luck!
7	Mar. 9	Deadline of Mini-Project-1 has been extended to March 30.
6	Mar. 5	Assignment-2 is now posted. Deadline is March 14.
5	Mar. 5	Mini-Project-2 is now posted. Deadline is April 4.
4	Feb. 26	Mini-Project-1 is now posted. Deadline is March 14.
3	Feb. 26	Assignment-1 is now posted. Deadline is March 7.
2	Feb. 5	Lecture-0 is now posted.
1	Feb. 5	Welcome to an exciting new semester!