{"id":2841,"date":"2016-02-02T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2016-02-02T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:26:16","slug":"2-day-workshop-on-introduction-to-swarm-intelligence-and-its-application-to-optimisation-by-professor-andries-engelbrecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/2-day-workshop-on-introduction-to-swarm-intelligence-and-its-application-to-optimisation-by-professor-andries-engelbrecht\/","title":{"rendered":"2-DAY WORKSHOP ON INTRODUCTION TO SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATION TO OPTIMISATION BY PROFESSOR ANDRIES ENGELBRECHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2-DAY WORKSHOP ON INTRODUCTION TO SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATION TO OPTIMISATION BY PROFESSOR ANDRIES ENGELBRECHT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to inform you the state-of-the-art workshop on \u201cIntroduction to Swarm Intelligence and its Application to Optimisation\u201d by Professor Andries Engelbrecht, Professor in Computer Science, Pretoria University, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workshop Dates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 11 &amp; 12 Apr 2016 (9.00 am to 5.00 pm)<\/p>\n<p>Venue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : Parkroyal Hotel Kuala Lumpur<\/p>\n<p>Fee\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : RM1,990.00 pp (RM1,890 pp for group of 3 or more)<\/p>\n<p>(We accept Local Order)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why attend this workshop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fundamentals of swarm intelligence<\/li>\n<li>particle swarm optimization, ant algorithms, artificial bee colony optimization, bacterial foraging optimization, firefly optimization, fish school optimization, and others<\/li>\n<li>optimization theory, specifically different classes of optimization problems including constrained optimization, optimization in dynamic environments, multi-objective optimization, and multimodal optimization<\/li>\n<li>how to apply the computational swarm intelligence algorithms to solve optimization problems of the different optimization problem classes<\/li>\n<li>how to apply the computational swarm intelligence algorithms to train neural networks, to cluster data, to perform DNA sequence alignment, and to train neural networks, amongst other problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workshop participants need no knowledge of any programming language or knowledge of artificial intelligence or computational intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will provide participants with practical exercises on applying particle swarm optimization algorithms to solve optimization problems.\u00a0 <u>Participants are expected to bring their laptops to the workshop.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop Leader:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andries Engelbrecht<\/strong> is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Pretoria, and serves as Head of the department. He holds the position of South African Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, and leads the Computational Intelligence Research Group. Prof Engelbrecht is very active in the international community, annually serving as reviewer for over 20 journals and 10 conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and the Swarm Intelligence Journal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workshop is developed from his vast experience in swarm intelligence, and is mostly based on book entitled <em>Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelliegnce,<\/em> 1<sup>st<\/sup> Ed, Wiley, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop Brochure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Details on the workshop contents and registration fees can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tekbac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brochure-Swarm-Intelligence-Apr-2016.pdf\">workshop brochure<\/a>(please ctrl+click).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Registration:<\/p>\n<p>You may register by emailing me your personal particulars or the completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tekbac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Registration-Form-Swarm-Intelligence-Apr-2016.xlsx\">registration form<\/a> (please ctrl+click)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kindly forward this email to your associates\/colleagues who may (also) benefit from this professional development programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you and kind regards<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E K TOH<br \/>\nPrincipal Consultant<br \/>\nTEKBAC (M) SDN BHD (626265-P)<br \/>\nUnit 12-07 Menara TJB, No. 9 Jalan Syed Muhd Mufti<\/p>\n<p>80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 07-2214877 Email: <a href=\"mailto:tekbac@singnet.com.sg\">tekbac@singnet.com.sg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2-DAY WORKSHOP ON INTRODUCTION TO SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATION TO OPTIMISATION BY PROFESSOR ANDRIES ENGELBRECHT &nbsp; We are pleased to inform you the state-of-the-art workshop on \u201cIntroduction to Swarm Intelligence and its Application to Optimisation\u201d by Professor Andries Engelbrecht, Professor in Computer Science, Pretoria University, South Africa. &nbsp; Workshop Dates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 : 11 &amp; 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}