Explores Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for routing and optimization, discussing constructive heuristics, local search, pheromone mechanisms, and real-world applications.
Covers the general logistics, course rationale, prerequisites, organization, credits, workload, grading, and course content, including swarm intelligence, foraging strategies, and collective phenomena.
Explores design solution definition, multidisciplinary optimization, and challenges in system design optimization, including the roots and motivation behind Multidisciplinary Design Optimization.