On behalf of Plymouth Engineering Design Centre, Plymouth, UK, we call for your papers for the special session on 'Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Engineering'. The session is planned to integrate experience from different engineering applications of Evolutionary Computing. The objective of the special session is to put forwarda common forum where people from different engineering disciplines can talk to each other and share their experience. Biotechnology b. Chemical Engineering c. Computer Aided Design, Control and Manufacturing d. I am looking for references to the use of genetic algorithms for configuration problems.
Configuration involves generating a combination of components from a fixed library.
The combination has to satisfy certain constraints and requirements. It is sometimes solved using constraint based programming methods. It seems like GAs might be a useful approach for large problems. I would be interested in hearing of any work in GAs in this or similar areas. I think Least-squares method is classically used because it correspond to the Least mean squares optimization method to approximate a curve.