Note that this schedule is a guide and may vary as the semester proceeds.
| Week | Dates | Topic | Slides | Assignment | Comments and Topics | 1 | 8/26-8/30 | Course Introduction | Week 1 slides |
Due Weds, Sept. 4th: Read and Review using the
Gentic Programming and Evolvable Machines (journal) review form, the paper
"Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices", J. Halloy et al,
Science, 16 November 2007: 1155-1158.
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Course intro. Why research and writting? Grad school. Introduction to
research. Sample review forms: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO), Gentic Programming and Evolvable Machines (journal), Artificial Intelligence (journal) |
2 | 9/2-9/6 | Papers | Week 2 slides | Introduction assignment due Friday, Sept. 13th |
No class Monday Sept. 2nd Submission process, paper stucture. Science paper. |
3 | 9/9-9/13 | Literature Searches and Basic Latex | Week 3 slides | Read Stu Steiner's proposal. If possible attend his proposal defense Sept. 17th, 1:00 pm, JEB328 | Literature searches, maintaining a bibliography, review papers. Basic Latex. | 4 | 9/16-9/20 | Paper structure | Week 4 slides |
Intro. and background assignment due Friday, Sept. 27th
Design of an Artificial Immune System for fault detection: A Negative Selection Approach read for Friday Sept. 27th. | Overall structure, abstracts, introductions, background. Paper Outline notes on introductions from Friday's lecture | 5 | 9/23-9/27 | More on paper structure | Week 5-6 slides |
Read and review using the GECCO review form: An Algorithm for Distributed On-Line, On-Board Evolutonary Robotics Racing to Improve On-Line, On-Board Evolutonary Robotics Read, but you don't need to review: Ph.D. Student must break away from the Undergraduate Mentality or read the original blog post with comments: Blog post Add summaries of two more papers to your background and find 3 more papers to cite. Think about which paper you would like to share with the class. | Methods, results, figures, graphs, tables, captions. | 6 | 9/30-10/4 | Paper structure | Week 6-7 slides | No class Wednesday, Oct. 2nd. | 7 | 10/7-10/11 | Writing and flow | Topic sentences, outlines. | 8 | 10/14-10/18 | Writing and flow; Titles | Week 8 slides |
Read by Monday, Oct. 21 (no review necessary): The Task of the Referee, by Alan J. Smith Testing Heuristics: We Have It All Wrong Google Proposal and Google CFP |
Flow, using lists, sections, subsections, outlines, using bold, italics, etc. Titles
Planning that title: Practices and preferences for titles with colons in academic articles Blog post: How to compose a title for your research paper |
9 | 10/21-10/25 | Research (testing algorithms), Reviewers, and Abstracts | Due 10/28/2013: A title, a paper you are willing to assign and present. | Discussing "The Task of the Reference" and "Testing Heuristics: We Have it All Wrong". Abstracts. | 10 | 10/28-11/1 | Results Section |
11/11/2013: A "complete" introduction and background. For the
introduction make sure that the broad topic area, its importance, and specific problem your research addresses are both presented clearly.
Make sure that the goal/hypothesis/aim of the
research is clear. In the background use the related research to present the
current state of the art: what has been accomplished/is know, and what remains
to be done/is unknown. Use that to justify your research and approach. 11/4/2013: Print, read, and edit the paper Neuroevolution of a trail following robotic controller for an autonomous CotsBot. In addition, anonymously, fill out and turn in a GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). Clearly this paper is still being written, but do your best on the evaluation. |
Presenting data, graphs, captions, tables, etc. Discussing results. | 11 | 11/4-11/8 | More paper reviews |
11/6/2013: Print and read the paper
ARC: A self-tuning, low overhead replacement cache". In addition,
fill out (not anonymously as this isn't a student's paper) and turn in a
GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). 11/11/2013: Print, edit, and read the paper "Clicker Training". In addition, fill out (anonymously as this is student's paper) and turn in a GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). 11/13/2013: Print and read the paper "Comparison of Genetic-based Feature Extraction Methods for Facial Recognition" In addition, fill out (not anonymously as this isn't a student's paper) and turn in a GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). |
Presentations | 12 | 11/11-11/15 | More papers and statistics |
11/22/2013: Write part of a methods and results section. For the methods
section describe one
experiment you propose to do. Include as much detail (for replicability) as
possible. If you are working on an "engineering project", describe one
component of the program/system. For the resutls section create one graph or
table. It does not need to contain real data, but should be labeled and
captioned correctly and describe the expected data. 11/18/2013: Print and read the paper "Length Bias and Search Limitations in Cartesian Genetic Programming" In addition, fill out (not anonymously as this isn't a student's paper) and turn in a GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). 11/20/2013: Print and read the paper "In VANETs we Trust?" In addition, fill out (not anonymously as this isn't a student's paper) and turn in a GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). |
Review 1,
Review 2,
Paper
Basic statistics, Null hypotheses, student t-tests. |
13 | 11/18-11/22 | John and Hani's papers | 11/25-11/29 | Fall Break | 14 | 12/2-12/6 | Papers and grants |
12/2/2013: Print and read the paper
"A Lightweight Architecture for Program Execution monitoring"
In addition,
fill out (not anonymously as this isn't a student's paper) and turn in a
GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). 12/4/2013: Print and read the paper "Learned Anticipation Strategy for Speed Control in an AUV Fleet" In addition, fill out (not anonymously as this isn't a student's paper) and turn in a GPEM review form (linked at the top of this page). 12/13/2013 Paper/thesis draft with title, intro and background, one set of methods, one set of sample results, and an outline of the rest of the thesis/paper. Try to include 20-30 outline entries. |
Friday, intro to grant writing | 15 | 12/9-12/13 | Grant Writing | Fill out the course evaluation. This course is taught infequently and doesn't follow standard models, so any feedback is welcome. In fact, you're on-line right now ... | 16 | 12/16-12/20 | No Final Exam |
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