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Genetics-based methodologies for the design of physical artifacts offer great promise but are also fraught with several hazards. This chapter serves to illuminate some of these hazards in the hope that researchers can use this as a starting point for further work in this burgeoning field. Although the hazards are illustrated with a particular genetics-based methodology, these hazards are present in most, if not all, computational design methodologies, of which genetics-based methodologies are a particularly interesting subset. This chapter briefly outlines the generic process employed by genetics-based design methodologies and the particular methodology employed for illustration. The remainder of the chapter explores some of the hazards associated with these methodologies.
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Roston, G.P. (1997). Hazards in Genetic Design Methodologies. In: Dasgupta, D., Michalewicz, Z. (eds) Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03423-1_8
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