Covers the general logistics, course rationale, prerequisites, organization, credits, workload, grading, and course content, including swarm intelligence, foraging strategies, and collective phenomena.
Introduces feed-forward networks, covering neural network structure, training, activation functions, and optimization, with applications in forecasting and finance.
Explores high-performance OPF solvers, addressing challenges in power system optimization and showcasing significant speed-ups and memory-efficient approaches.