**5. Conclusion**

We believe that merging symbolic AI (logic) with non-symbolic AI (ANNs) through our new proposed framework can achieve the following advantages:


We do not claim that the proposed approach can outperform existing approaches in all problems, however, we can certainly claim that we offered researchers, a framework truly worthy of investigation for complex optimization, control and design problems. The best approach will always remain problem-dependent which is the charm and challenge of engineering optimization.
