An investigation into the integration of neural networks with the structured genetic algorithm to aid conceptual design.
M. Y. RafiqC. WilliamsPublished in: AI in Structural Engineering (1998)
Keyphrases
- conceptual design
- genetic algorithm
- neural network
- engineering design
- fuzzy logic
- design process
- product development process
- artificial neural networks
- fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method
- qualitative reasoning
- mechanical design
- pattern recognition
- marine power plant
- product design
- structured data
- fitness function
- back propagation
- knowledge discovery
- information systems
- genetic algorithm ga
- multilayer perceptron
- data sets
- expert systems
- information retrieval
- databases