Biology and information technology will have an impact on the design of future products and processes. In this paper, the product and process design challenges are discussed. Evolutionary computation is introduced and its potential applications in design and manufacturing are discussed.

We introduce the concept of fruitful regions in a dynamic routing context: regions that have a high potential of generating loads to be transported. The objective is to maximise the number of loads transported, while keeping to capacity and time constraints. Loads arrive while the problem is being solved, which makes it a real-time routing problem. The solver is a self-adaptive evolutionary alg...

WEKA has recently become a very referenced DM tool. In spite of all the functionality it provides, it does not include any framework for the development of evolutionary algorithms. An evolutionary computation framework is JCLEC, which has been successfully employed for developing several EAs. The combination of both may lead in a mutual benefit. Thus, this paper proposes an intermediate layer t...

This section describes some of the applications to which evolutionary computation has been applied. Applications are divided into the areas of planning, design, simulation and identification, control, and classification.

This section presents a brief but comprehensive summary of the history of evolutionary computation, starting with the ground-breaking work of the 1950s, tracing the rise and development of the three primary forms of evolutionary algorithms (evolution strategies, evolutionary programming and genetic algorithms), and concluding with the present time, in which a more unified view of the field is e...

In recent years, the widespread penetration of the Internet has led to the use of diverse expressions over the Web. Among them, many appear to have strong video elements. However, few expressions are based on human beings, with whom we are most familiar. This is deemed to be attributable to the fact that it is not easy to generate human movements. This is attributable to the fact that the creat...

Railway track intervention planning is the process of specifying the location and time of required maintenance and renewal activities. To facilitate the process, decision support tools have been developed and typically use an expert system built with rules specified by track maintenance engineers. However, due to the complex interrelated nature of component deterioration, it is problematic for ...