Combining structural performance and designer preferences in evolutionary design space exploration
This paper addresses the need to consider both quantitative performance goals and qualitative requirements in conceptual design. A new computational approach for design space exploration is proposed that extends existing interactive evolutionary algorithms for increased inclusion of designer prefere...
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| Language: | en_US |
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Elsevier
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108253 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7646-8505 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6235-1995 |
| Summary: | This paper addresses the need to consider both quantitative performance goals and qualitative requirements in conceptual design. A new computational approach for design space exploration is proposed that extends existing interactive evolutionary algorithms for increased inclusion of designer preferences, overcoming the weaknesses of traditional optimization that have limited its use in practice. This approach allows designers to set the evolutionary parameters of mutation rate and generation size, in addition to parent selection, in order to steer design space exploration. This paper demonstrates the potential of this approach through a numerical parametric study, a software implementation, and series of case studies. |
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