Take Home Assignment #12

Due: Blackboard Questions due by 9:00am, Friday, November 14, 2008

Dr. Gur Adhar is going to talk about some problem solving techniques for solving "unsolvable" problems that are based on natural computations such as simulated annealing and ant colony optimization. To prepare, look through these PowerPoint slides that I downloaded at
 

http://engr.nmsu.edu/~csm/Ant_Colony_Optimization_Overview.ppt
 

and available locally at
 

http://people.uncw.edu/guinnc/courses/Fall08/100/Ant_Colony_Optimization_Overview.ppt
 

and then answer the Blackboard questions.