An evolutionary‐based data mining technique for assessment of civil engineering systems

Purpose – Analysis of many civil engineering phenomena is a complex problem due to the participation of a large number of factors involved. Traditional methods usually suffer from a lack of physical understanding. Furthermore, the simplifying assumptions that are usually made in the development of the traditional methods may, in some cases, lead to very large errors. The purpose of this paper is to present a new method, based on evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR) for capturing nonlinear interaction between various parameters of civil engineering systems.Design/methodology/approach – EPR is a data‐driven method based on evolutionary computing, aimed to search for polynomial structures representing a system. In this technique, a combination of the genetic algorithm and the least‐squares method is used to find feasible structures and the appropriate constants for those structures.Findings – Capabilities of the EPR methodology are illustrated by application to two complex practical civil engineering pro...

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