Evolutionary Design
27 Feb 2017 16:30
That is, generating designs by evolutionary
processes, of more-or-less random variation and selective retention of "what
works". "Working" may be assessed either in practice, in the Realized World,
or in some kind of simulation. This could be
done either informally or through some sort of
automated evolutionary optimization algorithm.
See also: Evolving Local Rules to
Perform Global Computations (or to satisfy global design criteria...)
To read:
- George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology
- Peter Bentley, "Aspects of Evolutionary Design by Computers", cs.NE/9809049
- Michael French, Invention and Evolution: Design in Nature
and Engineering
- Philip F. Hingston, Luigi C. Barone and Michalewicz Zbigniew (eds.), Design by Evolution: Advances in Evolutionary Design
[blurb]
- Henry Petroski
- Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering [blurb]
- Success through Failure: The Paradox of
Design [blurb]
- John Ziman (ed.), Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
