Use of GA based approach for engineering design through WWW

  • Authors:
  • Shu-Tan Hsieh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Accounting, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Today's industrial environment requires engineering design to be achieved by geographically distributed engineering teams who may work on different computer platforms, so the analogy can be presented as the distributed constraint optimization problems. This paper presents an agile approach that carries out a concurrent optimization of a product design and its associate constraint satisfaction in manufacturing perspective. Also, the approach has been implemented through the World Wide Web (WWW) regardless of the geographical constraints and different platforms used. In this paper, the hybrid evolution computation (EC) approaches combing genetic algorithm and stochastic annealing algorithms are applied to find optimal or near optimal solutions for two engineering design cases. The main contribution of this paper is to provide an agile approach for solving the engineering design problem which is modeled by the nonlinear programming model, and the approach is implemented through the WWW regardless of the geographical constraints and different platforms used. Experimental results are presented to exhibit the superior performance of the proposed methodology.