Integrating aesthetic criteria with a user-centric evolutionary system via a component-based design representation

Proceedings ICED 05, the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 35, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Machwe, Azahar T ^a   Parmee, Ian C ^b   Miles, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Agents; Engineering design; Interactive evolutionary design; Representation techniques

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC CRITERIA; BIT-STRINGS; COMPONENT BASED DESIGN; DESIGN ELEMENTS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN; EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM; INITIAL CONFIGURATION; INITIAL DESIGN; INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN; OBJECT-BASED REPRESENTATION; PROJECT OBJECTIVES; REAL NUMBER; REPRESENTATION TECHNIQUES; SEARCH SPACES; SIMPLE RULES; USER EVALUATIONS; USER-CENTRIC;

AGENTS; DESIGN;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84862604987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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