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Evolutionary Design by Computers,

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Editors: Edited by Peter J. Bentley

Publication Date: 28 May 1999

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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.

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Edited by Peter J. Bentley, University College London, U.K.

Acknowledgements

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

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Index

ISBN: 9781558606050

Page Count: 464

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