1. Design Issues -- 1.1 Adaptive Systems in Designing: New Analogies from Genetics and Developmental Biology -- 1.2 Emergent Computational Models in Structural Analysis and Design -- 1.3 Exploring the Design Potential of Evolutionary/Adaptive Search and Other Computational Intelligence Technologies -- 2. Adaptive Computing in Manufacture -- 2.1 Tackling Complex Job Shop Problems using Operation Based Scheduling -- 2.2 Minimising Job Tardiness: Priority Rules vs. Adaptive Scheduling -- 2.3 Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Cell Optimisation -- 2.4 A Temperature Predicting Model for Manufacturing Processes Requiring Coiling -- 2.5 Solving Multi-objective Transportation Problems by Spanning Tree-based Genetic Algorithm -- 3. Generic Issues: Model Representation, Multiobjectives and Constraint Handling -- 3.1 Optimisation for Multilevel problems: A Comparison of Various Algorithms -- 3.2 Evaluation of Injection Island GA Performance on Flywheel Design Optimization -- 3.3 Evolutionary Mesh Numbering: Preliminary Results -- 3.4 Two New Approaches to Multiobjective Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms -- 3.5 Mapping Based Constraint Handling for Evolutionary Search; Thurston's Circle Packing and Grid Generation -- 4. Structured Representations -- 4.1 Evolutionary Design of Analog Electrical Circuits using Genetic Programming -- 4.2 Improving Engineering Design Models using an Alternative Genetic Programming Approach -- 4.3 From Mondrian to Frank Lloyd Wright: Transforming Evolving Representations -- 4.4 A Comparison of Evolutionary-Based Strategies for Mixed Discrete Multilevel Design Problems -- 5. Aerospace Applications -- 5.1 Design Optimisation of a Simple 2-D Aerofoil Using Stochastic Search Methods -- 5.2 Adaptive Strategy Based on the Genetic Algorithm and a Sequence of Discrete Models in Aircraft Structural Optimization -- 5.3 Multi-objective Optimisation and Preliminary Airframe Design -- 5.4 Evolving Robust Strategies for Autonomous Flight: A Challenge to Optimal Control Theory -- 6. Other Applications -- 6.1 Performance of Genetic Algorithms for Optimisation of Frame Structures -- 6.2 Global Optimisation in Optical Coating Design -- 6.3 Evolutionary Algorithms for the Design of Stack Filters Specified using Selection Probabilities -- 6.4 Drawing Graphs with Evolutionary Algorithms -- 6.5 Benchmarking of Different Modifications of the Cascade Correlation Algorithm -- 6.6 Determination of Gas Temperature in a CVD Reactor From Optical Emission Spectra with the Help of Artificial Neural Networks and Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) -- 6.7 Multi-Domain Optimisation using Computer Experiments for Concurrent Engineering.