Design by Evolution: Advances in Evolutionary Design (Natural Computing Series)
Language: English
Pages: 346
ISBN: 3642093469
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Evolution is Nature’s design process. The natural world is full of wonderful examples of its successes, from engineering design feats such as powered flight, to the design of complex optical systems such as the mammalian eye, to the merely stunningly beautiful designs of orchids or birds of paradise. With increasing computational power, we are now able to simulate this process with greater fidelity, combining complex simulations with high-performance evolutionary algorithms to tackle problems that used to be impractical.
This book showcases the state of the art in evolutionary algorithms for design. The chapters are organized by experts in the following fields: evolutionary design and "intelligent design" in biology, art, computational embryogeny, and engineering. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and graduate students in natural computing, engineering design, biology and the creative arts.
Edinburgh in 2005 (CEC’05), and, partly as a response to the interesting ideas presented at that session, to embark on collecting together the contributions that make up this book. Along the way, we have realised that there are deep and beautiful connections between work done by scientists, engineers and artists, each with X Preface their own specific knowledge and culture, all striving to understand evolution as a design process or as a tool. We would like to thank all our authors, our
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