Assignment 2

Part 1 - Due: Tues, 2/10 before class
Parts 2 & 3 - Tues, 2/10 In-class exercise
Parts 2, 3 & 4 to be turned in by email before class Thur, 2/12

Part 1 - Scientific Papers

Part 2 - Sources of Information

1. What is the ACM ?
2. What does the acronym "SIG" represent ?
3. List the current ACM SIGs and give the topic to which each corresponds.
   Hint: There are a lot.
4. What is IEEE (pronounced I triple E) ?
5. What is IEEE Transactions ?

Part 3 - Conferences

1. Where is SIGIR holding their conference this year ?
   When is it being held ?
   How about CIKM; where and when ?
2. Where is SIGGRAPH holding their conference this year ?
   When is it being held ?
3. Where is SIGWEB holding their Hypertext 2009 conference this year ?
   When is it being held ?

Part 4 - Prepare for Don Miner's presentation on Swarm Intelligence

1. Read this webpage about Swarm Intelligence
2. What are boids ?
3. Name the three steering behaviors and explain each of them.
4. What movie was the first to use the boids model ?
   What were the applications of boids in that movie ?
5. OPTIONAL:
   For those of you who want to know more about swarm intelligence, look at
   "On Ant Colony Optimization" by M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, T. Stutzle
   Ant Colony Optimization-- Artificial Ants as a Computational Intelligence Technique,
   IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2006.