Abstract
During the past decades, products and their manufacturing processes have become much more complex than before. This has led to complex optimisation problems that require optimising the complicated product development process or the physical aspects of products with respect to a lot of design variables. A common approach to address these problems is to decompose the problem into a number of simpler sub-problems and optimise each sub-problem concurrently. This idea has been investigated in different research fields, including concurrent engineering (CE) and cooperative coevolution (CC). In this paper, main topics in CE and CC are reviewed, and the relationships between CE and CC are discussed along with some potential combinations between them. Copyright © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 22-31 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported in part by the 973 Programme of China under Grant 2011CB707006, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61175065 and 61329302, the Programme for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant NCET-12-0512, the Science and Technological Fund of Anhui Province for Outstanding Youth under Grant 1108085J16, the Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, and the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under Grant 247619.
Keywords
- Concurrent engineering
- Cooperative coevolution
- Decomposition
- Optimisation