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Inductive learning for engineering design optimization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Mark Schwabacher
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, Busch Campus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08855, U.S.A.
Thomas Ellman
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, Busch Campus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08855, U.S.A.
Haym Hirsh
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, Busch Campus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08855, U.S.A.

Extract

We are working on using machine learning to make the numerical optimization of complex engineering designs faster and more reliable. We envision a system that learns from previous design sessions knowledge that enables it to assist the engineer in setting up and carrying out a new design optimization. We have performed initial experiments for two aspects of setting up an optimization: selecting a prototype to serve as a starting point for the optimization and selecting a reformulation of the search space. Both choices can dramatically affect the speed and the reliability of design optimization.

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Research Abstracts
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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