Applying evolutionary computing to complex systems design

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 770-779

  Sutcliffe, Alistair ^a   Chang, Wei Chung ^b   Neville, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Evolutionary computing; Requirements; Simulation models; Socio technical systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DESIGN; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEMS; SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34548207252     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.902653     Document Type: Article

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