Evolutionary Design by Computers
- 1st Edition - May 21, 1999
- Latest edition
- Editor: Peter J. Bentley
- Language: English
Some of the most startling achievements in the use of computers to automate design are being accomplished by the use of evolutionary search algorithms to evolve designs. Evolutiona… Read more
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Description
Description
Some of the most startling achievements in the use of computers to automate design are being accomplished by the use of evolutionary search algorithms to evolve designs.
Evolutionary Design By Computers provides a showcase of the best and most original work of the leading international experts in Evolutionary Computation, Engineering Design, Computer Art, and Artificial Life. By bringing together the highest achievers in these fields for the first time, including a foreword by Richard Dawkins, this book provides the definitive coverage of significant developments in Evolutionary Design.
This book explores related sub-areas of Evolutionary Design, including:
* design optimization
* creative design
* the creation of art
* artificial life.
It shows for the first time how techniques in each area overlap, and promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas and methods. Evolutionary Design By Computers will be an essential resource for researchers in academia and industry.
Table of contents
Table of contents
About the Editor
Foreword
by Richard Dawkins
List of Contributors
1 An Introduction to Evolutionary Design by Computers
by Peter Bentley
SECTION 1: Evolution and Design
2 The Interplay of Evolution and Insight in Design
by Michael French
3 The Memetics of Design
by Derek Gatherer
4 The Race, the Hurdle, and the Sweet Spot
by David Goldberg
5 Exploring the Design Potential of Evolutionary Search, Exploration and Optimisation
by Ian Parmee
SECTION 2: Evolutionary Optimisation of Designs
6 Optimization in Mechanical Design
by Gordon Robinson, Mohammed El-Beltagy and Andy Keane
7 The Optimization of Flywheels using and Injection Island Genetic Algorithm
by David Eby, R. C. Averill, William F. Punch III, and Erik D. Goodman
8 A GA-based Approach to Reliability Design
by Mitsui Gen and Jong Ryul Kim
SECTION 3: Evolutionary Art
9 The Mutation and Growth of Art by Computers
by Stephen Todd and William Latham
10 Evolving Genetic Art
by Michael Witbrock and Scott Neil-Reilly
11 Evolutionary Art and Form
by Andrew Rowbottom
SECTION 4: Evolutionary Artificial Life Forms
12 Artificial Embryogeny and Cellular Differentiation
by Hugo de Garis
13 Evolving Three-Dimensional Morphology and Behaviour
by Karl Sims
14 Exploring Three-Dimensional Design Worlds using Lindenmeyer Systems and Genetic Programming
by Terence Broughton, Paul Coates and Helen Jackson
SECTION 5: Creative Evolutionary Design
15 Evolving Designs by Generating Useful Complex Gene Structures
by Mike Rosenman and John Gero
16 The Design of Analog Circuits by Means of Genetic Programming
by John Koza, Forrest H Bennet III, David Andre and Martin A.Keane
17 Computer Evolution of Buildable Objects
by Pablo Funes and Jordan Pollack
18 From Coffee Tables to Hospitals: Generic Evolutionary Design
by Peter Bentley
Glossary
Index
Review quotes
Review quotes
"Evolutionary design by computers is the major revolution in design thinking of the 20th century and this book is the best introduction available."—Professor John Frazer, Swire Chair and Head of School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Author of "An Evolutionary Architecture"
"Peter Bentley has assembled and edited an important collection of papers that demonstrate, convincingly, the utility of evolutionary computation for engineering solutions to complex problems in design."—David B. Fogel, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 28, 1999
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Peter J. Bentley
Peter J. Bentley is a Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, known for his research covering all aspects of EC, including multiobjective optimization, constraint handling, artificial immune systems, computational embryology and more, and applied to diverse applications including floor-planning, control, fraud-detection, and music composition. He speaks regularly at international conferences, and is a consultant, convenor, chair and reviewer for workshops, conferences, journals and books on Evolutionary Design and Evolutionary Computation. He has been a guest editor of special issues on Evolutionary Design and Creative Evolutionary Systems in journals, and is the editor of the book Evolutionary Design by Computers (MKP) and is the author of the popular science book, Digital Biology, to publish in May 2001.