Evolutionary design in a multi-agent design environment

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-220

  Liu, Hong ^a   Tang, Mingxi ^b  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computer aided design; Creative design; Evolutionary computing; Generic algorithm; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CREATIVE DESIGN; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING; TREE STRUCTURE;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 30344451127     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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