Computational steering of a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for engineering design

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1047-1057

  Shenfield, Alex ^a   Fleming, Peter J ^a   Alkarouri, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational steering; Decision making; Engineering design; Evolutionary multi objective optimisation; Interaction; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL STEERING; ENGINEERING DESIGN; MANY-OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION; TRADE-OFF SURFACE;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 35548980485     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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