Conceptual designing: Chaos-based approach

Authors:
Tomasz Arciszewski;Timothy Sauer;David Schum
Affiliations:
(Correspd.) Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Department, Information Technology and Engineering School, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA. E-mail: tarcisze@gmu.edu;Department of Mathematics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA. E-mail: tsauer@gmu.edu;Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, Information Technology and Engineering School, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA. E-mail: dschum@gmu.edu
Venue:
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Recent developments in a number of areas including information technology, complexity science, chaos theory, and evolutionary computation converge to suggest ways in which engineering design concepts might be generated. In this paper, a new understanding of this process, called "conceptual designing", is proposed in the context of chaos. The paper distinguishes between traditional and evolutionary designing and claims that the latter one may exhibit chaotic behavior. A general overview of chaos theory is also provided with several examples of chaos in evolutionary designing. Finally, a synthesis of conceptual designing and modern methods of chaos theory is suggested as a major research direction. The paper contains also an overview of initial results and conclusions with suggestions for future research.