A fuzzy neighborhood based GA in fuzzy engineering design

摘要

This article very briefly presents a new approach to model problems in the field of engineering design, by incorporating linguistic descriptions together with a variety of user-defined trade-off strategies. An interactive computer application was developed, using computational intelligence to solve the design task by producing a specially desired output under the given environmental conditions which are partly caused by the personal preferences of the engineer and by the expectations of a customer. It utilizes a binary- and integer-coded GA whose operators depend on fuzzy neighborhoods to generate and to optimize design solutions that are later identified by a clustering algorithm.