The field of natural computing has been the focus of a substantial research effort in recent
decades. One particular strand of this concerns the development of computational …

This study evolves and categorises a population of conceptual designs by their ability to
handle physical constraints. The design process involves a trade-off between form and …

Evolutionary algorithms are a competent nature-inspired approach for complex
computational problem solving. One recent development is Grammatical Evolution, a …

Evolutionary methods afford a productive and creative alternative design workflow. Crucial
to success is the choice of formal representation of the problem. String-rewriting context-free …

Our study aims to compare the effects of direct mutation and graph-based mutation on
representations of music domain. We focus on short tunes from the Irish folk tradition …

Evolutionary algorithms have proven their ability to optimise architectural designs but are
limited by their representation, ie, the structures that the algorithm is capable of generating …

A new interactive evolutionary 3D design system is presented. The representation is based
on graph grammars, a fascinating and powerful formalism in which nodes and edges are …

Genetic programming (GP) is the subset of evolutionary computation in which the aim is to
create executable programs. It is an exciting field with many applications, some immediate …

A designer should be able to express their intentions with a design tool. This paper
describes an evolutionary design tool that enables the architect to directly interact with the …

Recursion is a powerful concept that enables a solution to a problem to be expressed as a
relatively simple decomposition of the original problem into sub-problems of the same type …