Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025

Course Outline

Course outline for Evolutionary Security.

Research Journal

Your research journal is due by 9 PM the night before class. If you need more time please message me (on Teams) that you are running late. Entries are graded out of 4. Make sure to date stamp your entries. You may have multiple entries between classes; I will look at all entries since the last class.

For instructions on reviewing papers, see here.

Literature Review

To help you write a literature review or the background of a research paper, read the following:

• Harvey, "What Is a Literature Review?" (DOC) (PPT)
• Taylor, "The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It"

Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)

January 7, 2025

Introduction

January 9, 2025

Introduction to Trust

January 14, 2025

• Marsh, "Formalising Trust as a Computational Concept." (Chapters 1 & 3)

January 16, 2025

• Bateson, "The Biological Evolution of Cooperation and Trust." (1988)
• Michod & Roze, "Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of multicellularity." (2001)