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Conventional engineering is performed bottom-up. We seek to arrange the available components or building blocks in the best possible way. This is often a formidable challenge. But nature designs in the obverse manner: by scoring alternative totalities as part of an iterative process of mutation and selection. We can now simulate this process in fast-time and realize top-down evolutionary engineering. We can design better products and services through the use of the Valuated State Space Approach coupled with evolutionary programming.
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Fogel, L.J. (1997). Top-down evolutionary engineering. In: Yao, X., Kim, JH., Furuhashi, T. (eds) Simulated Evolution and Learning. SEAL 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028516
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