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Metaheuristics in Water, Geotechnical and Transport Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Metaheuristics in Water, Geotechnical and Transport Engineering

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-31
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  • Publisher: Newnes

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are often large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems. This book examines the latest developments of metaheuristics and their applications in water, geotechnical and transport engineer...

Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-31
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  • Publisher: Newnes

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are commonly large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems. This book examines the latest developments of metaheuristics and their applications in structural engineering, construction en...

Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568
Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods

Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods discusses the results of a recent multi-objective combinatorial optimization achievement that considered metaheuristic, mathematical programming, heuristic, hyper heuristic and hybrid approaches. In other words, the book presents various multi-objective combinatorial optimization issues that may benefit from different methods in theory and practice. Combinatorial optimization problems appear in a wide range of applications in operations research, engineering, biological sciences and computer science, hence many optimization approaches have been developed that link the discrete universe to the continuous universe through...

Swarm Intelligence and Bio-Inspired Computation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Swarm Intelligence and Bio-Inspired Computation

A new metaheuristic optimization algorithm, called krill herd (KH), has been recently proposed by Gandomi and Alavi. In this study, KH is introduced for structural optimization. For more verification, KH is subsequently applied to three design problems reported in the literature. The performance of the KH algorithm is further compared with various algorithms representative of the state of the art in the area. The comparisons show that the results obtained by KH can be better than the best solutions obtained by the existing methods in these three case studies.

Handbook of Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms: The State of the Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Handbook of Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms: The State of the Art

The introduction of nature-inspired optimization algorithms (NIOAs), over the past three decades, helped solve nonlinear, high-dimensional, and complex computational optimization problems. NIOAs have been originally developed to overcome the challenges of global optimization problems such as nonlinearity, non-convexity, non-continuity, non-differentiability, and/or multimodality which traditional numerical optimization techniques had difficulties solving. The main objective for this book is to make available a self-contained collection of modern research addressing the general bound-constrained optimization problems in many real-world applications using nature-inspired optimization algorithms. This book is suitable for a graduate class on optimization, but will also be useful for interested senior students working on their research projects.

Handbook of Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms: The State of the Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Handbook of Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms: The State of the Art

This book presents recent contributions and significant development, advanced issues, and challenges. In real-world problems and applications, most of the optimization problems involve different types of constraints. These problems are called constrained optimization problems (COPs). The optimization of the constrained optimization problems is considered a challenging task since the optimum solution(s) must be feasible. In their original design, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are able to solve unconstrained optimization problems effectively. As a result, in the past decade, many researchers have developed a variety of constraint handling techniques, incorporated into (EAs) designs, to counter this deficiency. The main objective for this book is to make available a self-contained collection of modern research addressing the general constrained optimization problems in many real-world applications using nature-inspired optimization algorithms. This book is suitable for a graduate class on optimization, but will also be useful for interested senior students working on their research projects.

Computational Intelligence in Remanufacturing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Computational Intelligence in Remanufacturing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many alternatives to manufacturing have been recommended from a number of international organizations. Although challenges will arise, remanufacturing has the ability to transform ecological and business value. Computational Intelligence in Remanufacturing introduces various computational intelligence techniques that are applied to remanufacturing-related issues, results, and lessons from specific applications while highlighting future development and research. This book is an essential reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in mechanical, industrial, and electrical engineering.

Advances in Structural Engineering—Optimization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Advances in Structural Engineering—Optimization

This book is an up-to-date source for computation applications of optimization, prediction via artificial intelligence methods, and evaluation of metaheuristic algorithm with different structural applications. As the current interest of researcher, metaheuristic algorithms are a high interest topic area since advance and non-optimized problems via mathematical methods are challenged by the development of advance and modified algorithms. The artificial intelligence (AI) area is also important in predicting optimum results by skipping long iterative optimization processes. The machine learning used in generation of AI models also needs optimum results of metaheuristic-based approaches. This book is a great source to researcher, graduate students, and bachelor students who gain project about structural optimization. Differently from the academic use, the chapter that emphasizes different scopes and methods can take the interest and help engineer working in design and production of structural engineering projects.

Nature-Inspired Algorithms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Nature-Inspired Algorithms

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-17
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This comprehensive reference text discusses nature inspired algorithms and their applications. It presents the methodology to write new algorithms with the help of MATLAB programs and instructions for better understanding of concepts. It covers well-known algorithms including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithm, particle Swarm optimization and differential evolution, and recent approached including gray wolf optimization. A separate chapter discusses test case generation using techniques such as particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, and differential evolution algorithm. The book- Discusses in detail various nature inspired algorithms and their applications Provides MATLAB pr...