Distributed Manufacturing as co-evolutionary system

Distributed Web-Based Desktop E-Manufacturing System

Rapid prototyping (RP) is an automated manufacturing process that quickly builds physical models from CAD files of 3D prototypes. With the high advanced network technologies, many different software and hardware systems can be integrated as a distributed platform to provide more services, solve more complicated problems and achieve better performance. The main objective of this paper is to deve...

Pfeiffer – A Distributed Open-ended Evolutionary System

Pfeiffer contains a population of fractals which has been evolving continuously for more than three years. The animations are developed from embryos using a Lindenmayer grammar (LSystem). These open generative representations potentially allow gene duplication and the evolution of higher order genetic operators and might be a step towards the emergence of social intelligence in swarms of artifi...

Study on Evolutionary Scheduling Problems in Integrated Manufacturing System

Integrated Cellular Manufacturing System Design: an Evolutionary Algorithm Approach

Cellular manufacturing system design has received much attention for the past three decades. The design process involves decisions on (i) cell formation, (ii) cell layout, and (iii) layout of cells on the shop floor. These decisions should be addressed jointly, if full benefits of cellular manufacturing are to be realised. However, due to the complexity of the problem, most researchers addresse...

Language as an evolutionary system

John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry argued that human language signified the eighth major transition in evolution: human language marked a new form of information transmission from one generation to another [Maynard Smith J, Szathmáry E. The major transitions in evolution. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press; 1995]. According to this view language codes cultural information and as such forms the basis...