The Roles of Evolutionary Computation, Fitness Landscape, Constructive Methods and Local Searches in the Development of Adaptive Systems for Infrastructure Planning

Abstract: Modelling and systems simulation for improving city planning, and traffic equilibrium are involved with the development of adaptive systems that can learn and respond to the environment intelligently. By employing sophisticated techniques which highly support infrastructure planning and design, evolutionary computation can play a key role in the development of such systems. The key to presenting solution strategies for these systems is fitness landscape which makes some problems hard and some problems easy to tackle. Moreover, constructive methods and local searches can assist evolutionary searches to improve their performance. In this paper, in the context of infrastructure, in general, and city planning, and traffic equilibrium, in particular, the integration of these four concepts is briefly discussed. Citation: Amirghasemi, M. & Zamani, R. (2014). The Roles of Evolutionary Computation, Fitness Landscape, Constructive Methods and Local Searches in the Development of Adaptive Systems for Infrastructure Planning. In: Campbell P. and Perez P. (Eds), Proceedings of the International Symposium of Next Generation Infrastructure, 1-4 October 2013, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, Australia.