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This interdisciplinary book places particle swarms within the larger context of intelligent adaptive behavior and evolutionary computation.
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Evolving Materials

This is another fascinating application of Artificial Intelligence for a noble cause: Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks are used to create better materials -- increasing robustness or catalysing properties for example. The process is a bit sketchy in the articles, but I think the NN are first use to analyse the properties of the existing material, which is then combined together using a GA. I take it the new material is simulated or analysed to determine its fitness, and the process can start again.

This technique is still in its infancy, but just imagine the potential! For examples, if you could create a spaceship shell 10 times more resistant but 100 times lighter, the amount of energy needed to get to space would decrease drastically...

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Saturday 26 January, 09:41
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