ADAPTIVE COMPUTING IN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE - 2006

THE CONFERENCE

**New announcement:  The UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council are again providing financial support to the conference. This will allow us to offer travel and accommodation assistance to research students with funding difficulties **

Details to follow.

This seventh evolutionary computing in design and manufacture conference is supported by the University of the West of England, the Institute for People-centred Computation and the UK EPSRC 'Discovery in Design' Cluster (www.ip-cc.org.uk/did).

The Conference will be held at Engineers House in the historic Clifton District of Bristol in the South West of England from April 25th-27th, 2006.  As in previous years, the intention of this well-established biennial event is to explore the integration of evolutionary search, exploration and optimisation and associated Computational Intelligence (CI) technologies (e.g. neural computing, intelligent agent systems, fuzzy logic etc) across a wide spectrum of design and manufacturing activities.

This small Conference maintains a single stream format of paper presentations complemented by poster sessions. This supports a highly interactive meeting where there is ample opportunity for discussion relating to problem areas concerning both the underlying technologies and the application areas. The Conference provides an opportunity for participants to discover new techniques, concepts and applications whilst discussing and improving existing technologies within an informal environment.

Application areas have ranged across a broad spectrum, from the design of engineering systems / components through architectural, network and electronic design to drug design / discovery and financial and food product design. In terms of manufacturing, areas of interest have included resource scheduling and planning, facility layout, supply chain design, robotics and control. 

More generic areas relating to multi-objective and constraint satisfaction, support of innovation and creativity and the handling of uncertainty and ill-definition also play a major role. Further information relating to the main areas of interest can be found in the first call.