Applications of Bat Algorithm and its Variants

This book highlights essential concepts in connection with the traditional bat algorithm and its recent variants, as well as its application to find optimal solutions for a variety of real-world engineering and medical problems. Today, swarm intelligence-based meta-heuristic algorithms are extensively being used to address a wide range of real-world optimization problems due to their adaptabili…

Applied Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

This book gravitates on the prominent theories and recent developments of swarm intelligence methods, and their application in both synthetic and real-world optimization problems. The special interest will be placed in those algorithmic variants where biological processes observed in nature have underpinned the core operators underlying their search mechanisms. In other words, the book centers …

Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques for Image Processing Applications

This book provides a platform for exploring nature-inspired optimization techniques in the context of imaging applications. Optimization has become part and parcel of all computational vision applications, and since the amount of data used in these applications is vast, the need for optimization techniques has increased exponentially. These accuracy and complexity are a major area of concern wh…

Design Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Electromagnetic Systems

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to design sensitivity analysis theory as applied to electromagnetic systems. It treats the subject in a unified manner, providing numerical methods and design examples. The specific focus is on continuum design sensitivity analysis, which offers significant advantages over discrete design sensitivity methods. Continuum design sensitivity formulas …

Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design Optimization and Control Wi…

This book contains thirty-five selected papers presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Applications to Industrial and Societal Problems (EUROGEN 2017). This was one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). Topics treated in the various cha…

Optimization in Electrical Engineering

This textbook provides students, researchers, and engineers in the area of electrical engineering with advanced mathematical optimization methods. Presented in a readable format, this book highlights fundamental concepts of advanced optimization used in electrical engineering. Chapters provide a collection that ranges from simple yet important concepts such as unconstrained optimization to hig…

Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization a…

This volume presents up-to-date material on the state of the art in evolutionary and deterministic methods for design, optimization and control with applications to industrial and societal problems from Europe, Asia, and America. EUROGEN 2015 was the 11th of a series of International Conferences devoted to bringing together specialists from universities, research institutions and industries …

Metaheuristics and Optimization in Computer and Electrical Engineering

The use of artificial intelligence, especially in the field of optimization is increasing day by day. The purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of using different kinds of optimization algorithms to advance and enhance the tools used for computer and electrical engineering purposes.

Thermal System Optimization

This book presents a wide-ranging review of the latest research and development directions in thermal systems optimization using population-based metaheuristic methods. It helps readers to identify the best methods for their own systems, providing details of mathematical models and algorithms suitable for implementation. To reduce mathematical complexity, the authors focus on optimization of i…

Numerical Methods and Optimization: A Consumer Guide

Initial training in pure and applied sciences tends to present problem-solving as the process of elaborating explicit closed-form solutions from basic principles, and then using these solutions in numerical applications. This approach is only applicable to very limited classes of problems that are simple enough for such closed-form solutions to exist. Unfortunately, most real-life problems are …

Continuous and Distributed Systems: Theory and Applications

In this volume, the authors close the gap between abstract mathematical approaches, such as abstract algebra, number theory, nonlinear functional analysis, partial differential equations, methods of nonlinear and multi-valued analysis, on the one hand, and practical applications in nonlinear mechanics, decision making theory and control theory on the other. Readers will also benefit from the…

Computational Methods for Application in Industry 4.0

This book presents computational and statistical methods used by intelligent systems within the concept of Industry 4.0. The methods include among others evolution-based and swarm intelligence-based methods. Each method is explained in its fundamental aspects, while some notable bibliography is provided for further reading. This book describes each methods' principles and compares them. It is i…

Optimization in Industry

This book describes different approaches for solving industrial problems like product design, process optimization, quality enhancement, productivity improvement and cost minimization. Several optimization techniques are described. The book covers case studies on the applications of classical as well as evolutionary and swarm optimization tools for solving industrial issues. The content is very…

Soft Computing Techniques for Engineering Optimization

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978-0-367-14861-4

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xiii, 143 p.; 24 cm.

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006.3 Kum s

An Introduction to Optimization

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ISBN/ISSN

0-471-08949-4

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xiii, 169 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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519.3 Cho i

Algorithms for Sparsity-Constrained Optimization

This thesis demonstrates techniques that provide faster and more accurate solutions to a variety of problems in machine learning and signal processing. The author proposes a "greedy" algorithm, deriving sparse solutions with guarantees of optimality. The use of this algorithm removes many of the inaccuracies that occurred with the use of previous models.

Introduction to Optimization Analysis in Hydrosystem Engineering

This book presents the basics of linear and nonlinear optimization analysis for both single and multi-objective problems in hydrosystem engineering. The book includes several examples with various levels of complexity in different fields of water resources engineering. The examples are solved step by step to assist the reader and to make it easier to understand the concepts. In addition, the l…

Optimal Control with Aerospace Applications

“The book provides an accessible and comprehensive exposition and introduction to methods of optimal control and their use in aerospace applications. It is oriented towards those who are beginning their study of optimal control, those who are interested in exploiting optimal control theory to treat specific problems arising in applications, in general, and to practitioners in the area of aero…

Cuckoo Search and Firefly Algorithm : Theory and Applications

Nature-inspired algorithms such as cuckoo search and firefly algorithm have become popular and widely used in recent years in many applications. These algorithms are flexible, efficient and easy to implement. New progress has been made in the last few years, and it is timely to summarize the latest developments of cuckoo search and firefly algorithm and their diverse applications. This book wil…

Optimization of chemical processes, second edition

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2

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-039359-1

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xv, 651 p., ill., : 24 cm.

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660.28 Edg o

Constrained Optimization in the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Th…

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0-442-00722-1

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xii, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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515.64 Gre c 1992

OPTIMAL CONTROL : Linear Quadratic Methods

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0-13-638560-5

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viii, 377 p. ; 24 cm

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629.8 312 And o

NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA AND OPTIMIZATION VOLUME 1

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0-201-12649-4

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xvii, 426 p.; 25 cm.

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512.5 Gil n 1991

KNAPSACK PROBLEMS: Algorithms and Computer Implementations

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0-471-92420-2

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x, 287p. ; 24 cm

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Wiley-Interscience series in discrete mathematics and optimiztion

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511.8 Mar k

Parametric Optimization: Singularities, Pathfollowing and Jumps

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ISBN/ISSN

0-471-92807-0

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vi, 190 p. : 25 cm

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Call Number

519.3 Gud p

INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMIZATION METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN STATISTICS

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Network Models in Optimization and Their Applications in Practice

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