Nature Inspired Computing Blooms Taxonomy Questions
UNIT – I: Evolutionary Computing
- Problem Solving as a Search Task
- Hill Climbing and Simulated Annealing
- Evolutionary Biology – Biological Foundations
- Evolutionary Computing – Core Concepts
- The Other Main Evolutionary Algorithms
- Genetic Algorithms (GA)
- Genetic Programming (GP)
- Evolution Strategies (ES)
- Differential Evolution (DE)
- From Evolutionary Biology to Computing – Inspiration and Mapping
- Scope of Evolutionary Computing
- Optimization
- Machine Learning
- Design Automation
- Game AI
- Robotics
UNIT – II: Neurocomputing
- The Nervous System – Biological Basis
- Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) – Overview and Structure
- Typical ANNs and Learning Algorithms
- Perceptron, MLP, Backpropagation
- Self-Organizing Maps (SOM)
- Radial Basis Function (RBF) Networks
- Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
- From Natural to Artificial Neural Networks – Abstraction and Modeling
- Scope of Neurocomputing
- Pattern Recognition
- Forecasting and Control
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning Foundations
UNIT – III: Swarm Intelligence
- Ant Colonies – Foraging Behavior and Algorithms (ACO)
- Swarm Robotics – Decentralized Coordination and Applications
- Social Adaptation of Knowledge
- Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
- Bee Colony Optimization
- Firefly Algorithm
- Applications in Optimization, Scheduling, and Routing
UNIT – IV: Immunocomputing
- The Immune System – Biological Principles
- Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) – Overview
- Bone Marrow Models – Generation of Antibodies
- Negative Selection Algorithms – Anomaly Detection
- Clonal Selection and Affinity Maturation – Learning and Optimization
- Artificial Immune Networks – Immune Network Theory in Computing
- From Natural to Artificial Immune Systems – Computational Abstraction
- Scope of Artificial Immune Systems
- Intrusion Detection
- Fault Tolerance
- Bioinformatics
- Optimization and Classification
UNIT – V: Case Studies
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Bioinformatics
- Gene Expression Analysis
- Protein Structure Prediction
- Sequence Alignment using Evolutionary/Immune Algorithms
- Neural Networks in Genomic Data Mining
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Information Display
- Visualization using Swarm-based Layouts
- Immune-inspired Anomaly Highlighting
- Neural Network-driven Adaptive Interfaces
- Evolutionary Design of Dashboards and User Interfaces