USC ARCH 517 2011: SCHEDULE
Galapagos Course Schedule
TIME: Thursday Evenings: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
DAYS: 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/24, and 3/31
February 24, 2011
- Course Introduction: What is an Evolutionary System?
- The Proving Ground Wiki
- Grasshopper Review
- GRASSHOPPER REVIEW TUTORIALS: Basic Grasshopper Exercises + Galapagos Week 1
- ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Join the Wiki, 2. Create Personal Labs Page 3. Upload Grasshopper Review Progress to Wiki 4. Identify Final Project Idea and Post to Wiki
March 3rd, 2011
- Q&A: Grasshopper, Wiki Process
- Evolutionary Computing Principles: Genes, Fitness, Selection, Coupling, Mutation
- Under the Hood: Some Pseudocode and an example VB Implementation
- GALAPAGOS IN-CLASS TUTORIALS: 1. Galapagos Interface, 2. Simple Optimization Examples (single objective)
- ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Galapagos Exercise (single objective), 2. Submit Final Project Process
March 10, 2011
- Q&A: Assignments, Wiki Process
- Evolving Architecture
- GALAPAGOS IN-CLASS TUTORIALS: Multi-objective Galapagos problems
- ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Galapagos Exercise (multi objective), 2. Submit Final Project Process
March 24, 2011
- Q&A: Assignments, Wiki Process
- Evolving Architecture
- GALAPAGOS IN-CLASS TUTORIALS: Solving architectural problems with Galapagos Part 2
- ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Submit Final Project Video, 2. Prepare for Discussion @ NBBJ
March 31, 2011
- Wiki documentation are due before class starts.
- FINAL COURSE DISCUSSION Meet @ NBBJ Los Angeles
- 523 West 6th Street Suite 300, Downtown Los Angeles
