Shape grammars allow a designer to explore a diverse and broad design space. Especially
among architects and engineers, the opportunity to evaluate numerous alternatives in the …

Highlights•A generative method for aesthetic shape exploration in product design is
proposed.•The model generates a high number of variations and may adapt to different …

It is approximately 50 years since the first computational experiments were conducted in
what has become known today as the field of Genetic Programming (GP), twenty years since …

The field of natural computing has been the focus of a substantial research effort in recent
decades. One particular strand of this concerns the development of computational …

Shape grammars are a powerful and appealing formalism for automatic shape generation in
computer-based design systems. This paper presents a proposal complementing the …

A sampling approach is proposed for deriving profiles of an existing product design using
profile similarities and primitive shapes, such as circles, triangles, and ellipses, as …

Grammatical Evolution (GE) has a long history in evolutionary computation. Central to the
behaviour of GE is the use of a linear representation and grammar to map individuals from …

In this paper, we present a method for generating fast conceptual urban design prototypes.
We synthesize spatial configurations for street networks, parcels and building volumes …

Truss optimization in the field of Structural Engineering is a growing discipline. The
application of Grammatical Evolution, a grammar-based form of Genetic Programming (GP) …

Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) that takes inspiration from the
biological evolutionary process to search for solutions to problems. This chapter gives a brief …