Innovative Computational Support in Bridge Aesthetics

Moore, C. J.; Miles, John Christopher; Evans, Samuel Lewin

doi:10.3141/1549-01

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“…A 'negotiating agent' approach (Cvetkovic &, Parmee, 2003) will be adopted to identify those aspects of given sample designs which do or do not have aesthetic merit. The software agents will each represent a particular established aesthetic such as those proposed by Moore et al (1996b), Ngo et al (2003) and Stamps, (1999) and these will be ranked by the user in terms of preference (Cvetkovic & Parmee, 2001). The agents will negotiate to determine the relative performance of the solutions of each population and return the 'best' solutions to the user in rank order.…”

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Overcoming Representation Issues when Including Aesthetic Criteria in Evolutionary Design

Machwe

Parmee

Miles

2005

Computing in Civil Engineering (2005)

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It is well known that for any sort of evolutionary search we must represent the problem solution in a suitable manner since the choice of representation has a large impact on the type and efficiency of the evolutionary search procedure applied. Usually in evolutionary design applications either bit strings or real number parameters are used to encode the problem. However, during the initial design phase a 'design' may not be decomposable into real number parameters since the nature of the search space is not well understood and / or the designer wishes to maintain a highly flexible approach whilst establishing an initial configuration. The paper introduces the overall objectives of the project and discusses representation issues before presenting an object-based representation which tries to incorporate the ambiguity present during the initial design phase by working with design elements and objects as members of the chromosome. Ambiguity is particularly acute in this case as the overall project objective is the development of a user-centric evolutionary design system that includes aesthetic criteria evaluation.

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Section: Further Workmentioning

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Overcoming Representation Issues when Including Aesthetic Criteria in Evolutionary Design

Machwe

Parmee

Miles

2005

Computing in Civil Engineering (2005)

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“…Although much research relating to artificial design environments is evident [1,2,3] there is little evidence of the integration of evolutionary search and exploration, user evaluation (of design solutions) and machine learning within a single design environment [4]. Furthermore, integration of aesthetic criteria within computer-based design has been limited to the development of theoretical models with little evidence of application based research [5,6].…”

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Integrating aesthetic criteria with evolutionary processes in complex, free-form design – an initial investigation

Machwe

Parmee²

2006 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation

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This research is a continuation of previous work by the authors relating to the inclusion of aesthetic criteria within an interactive evolutionary design system. The work described extends the design system re the manipulation of a more complex design problem with increased importance placed on aesthetic criterion. The paper initially introduces the previous work before describing more recent research and positioning this in terms of previously published work. Finally, initial results from the further developed design system are presented.

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