A-Design: Theory and Implementation of an Adaptive, Agent-Based Method of Conceptual Design

A new theory of engineering design known as A-Design is introduced that models the workings of realistic engineering design in a complex adaptive system of interacting software agents. The methodology is general enough to be used on a variety of search problems, however the motivation behind the research is to create design configurations. The system constructs meaningful designs from a catalog of electromechanical components based on a variety of user-defined objectives while accom—modating changes that might occur in the focus of the problem.

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