COMBINING GENERATED STRUCTURAL MODELS WITH GENETIC PROGRAMMING IN EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS

A new methodology has been proposed that combines structural modelling with genetic programming, and establishes an integrated toolkit for c hemical process engineering. The principle is that similarly to the en gineering way of thinking the modeling is based on the a priori known structures, while the final evaluation is made in the knowledge of the best detailed simulation experiences. The basic features of the metho d are the following: The conservational processes are mapped directly onto a descriptive computer program that can be executed by the help o f a general purpose simulator automatically. The applied structural mo deling technique, separating the invariant and the problem specific ac tual knowledge, supports the integrated problem solving. The genetic m odel of the typical time varied process engineering networks is synthe sised automatically. There is an evaluation feedback from the synthesi zed and simulated variants to the genetic elements.