Interactive Evolutionary Conceptual Design Systems

  • Ian Parmee
  • Dragan Cvetkovic
  • Christopher Bonham
  • Andrew H. Watson

Abstract

The paper introduces the concept of an interactive evolutionary conceptual design system which supports iterative designer/evolutionary search processes. Evolutionary search is seen as a means of collating high-quality engineering design information as opposed to providing a standard optimisation capability. The intention is to capture designer knowledge through designer-led, on-line design space change based upon information generated by and extracted from relatively continuous co-evolutionary search processes.

Keywords

Design Space Pareto Front Design Team Software Agent Pareto Frontier 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Ian Parmee
    • 1
  • Dragan Cvetkovic
    • 1
  • Christopher Bonham
    • 1
  • Andrew H. Watson
    • 1
  1. 1.Engineering Design CentreUniversity of PlymouthUK

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