Syllabus

Optimization techniques: Traditional methods, Simulated Annealing, Genetic algorithms, Ant-Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, Multi-objective optimization techniques and evolutionary computing.Case studies. Fuzzy logic and its applications: Concept, Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy implications, Fuzzy inferences, Fuzzy rule-based systems, Fuzzy logic controller. Case studies. Artificial neural networks and its applications: Concept, ANN architectures, ANN learning techniques. Case studies. Hybrid Computing: GA+FL, FL+ANN, GA+ANN, GA+FL+ANN. Case studies. Machine Learning Methodologies: SVM, HMM, GMM.Case studies.