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.
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
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