Complex Adaptive Systems + Soft Computing = Emergent Design Systems (EDS).
Mark S. Voss · 2000
The focus of this paper is to illustrate how soft computing can be incorporated into the complex adaptive systems (CAS) framework to form a methodology for emergent design systems (EDS). Several design metaphors will be used to illustrate the application of the EDS methodology with respect to engineering design. Performance based structural design and architectural design will be used to elucidate the EDS approach. Fission fusion reactor design will be used as a conceptual framework to demonstrate the aggregation of several low level complex adaptive systems into a hierarchical EDS.