CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the International Journal of Design Engineering (IJDE)
 
Evolutionary Computing for Engineering Design

Guest Editors: Ashutosh Tiwari, Elhadj Benkhelifa and Rajkumar Roy
Cranfield University (UK)

Research in Evolutionary Computing (EC) for engineering design has a long history. Early applications of EC in engineering design can be traced back to the 1960's in areas such as fluid mechanics, pipe design and structural engineering. This field has seen further significant advances in the last two decades. Since then research in this area has been expanding to a large spectrum of engineering design problems from numerous disciplines. Having been successfully applied to solve several engineering design problems, EC has demonstrated some important advantages compared to conventional design and optimisation techniques. Different methods have been developed in EC to tackle different problem characteristics and domains. Multi-objective optimisation and co-evolution are two examples of this.

This call for papers is soliciting original contributions to research with relevance to the application of Evolutionary Computing to Engineering Design. The selected papers will highlight the state-of-the-art, emerging technologies and recent successes, and will define major research challenges. Topics of relevance include, but are not limited to:  
* Theory and Applications of Evolutionary Design
* Evolutionary Methods for Engineering Design
* Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation 
* Co-evolutionary Engineering Design
* Multi-disciplinary Engineering Design Optimisation
* Design for X (DFX) using Evolutionary Computing
* Topology Optimisation using Evolutionary Computing
* Constraint-handling Methods in Evolutionary Design Optimisation
* Scalability of Evolutionary Computing Methods in Engineering Design
* Evolutionary Robotics
* Medical Applications of Engineering Design using Evolutionary Computing
* Design of Micro/Nano Systems using Evolutionary Computing
* Evolutionary Hardware 
* Creativity and Innovation using Evolutionary Computing
* Evolutionary Machine Design
* Real-life Applications of Evolutionary Design Optimisation
* Memetic Algorithms Applied to Engineering Design
* Immune System based Algorithms Applied to Engineering Design
* Engineering Design Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Probabilistic Models
* Computational Swarm Intelligence Applied to Engineering Design

Deadlines
Submission of papers: May 15th, 2009
First decision notification: July 15th, 2009
Submission of revised papers: September 15th, 2009
Final decision notification: November 15th, 2009

Submission Instructions
Please submit your contributions to the guest editors
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The original manuscript should be submitted electronically using template for 9.5 x 6.5 size (single column) in Word format (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=64). The number of words in a paper should be within the range of 5000-7000 (excluding figures). All papers will be rigorously refereed. Submission of a paper to this special issue of IJDE implies that no similar paper has already been accepted or will be submitted to any other conference or journal.




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Dr. Ashutosh Tiwari
Senior Lecturer in Design Optimisation 
 
Decision Engineering Centre, Manufacturing Department
School of Applied Sciences
Cranfield University
Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
 
Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758250
Fax: +44 (0) 1234 754605
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