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  title info:
    title: Harmony Search Algorithms for Structural Design Optimization
  name:
    name part: Geem, Zong Woo.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 227 p. online resource.
  abstract: Various structures, such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, paved roads, and offshore structures, play an important role in our lives. However, constructing these structures requires lots of budget. Thus, how to cost-efficiently design them while satisfying all the design constraints is an important factor to structural engineers. Traditionally, mathematical gradient-based optimization techniques have been applied to the design. However, these gradient-based methods are not suitable for discrete-type design variables such as ready-made cross sectional area of structural members. Recently, researchers have turned their interest into metaheuristic optimization techniques because they are able to efficiently handle discrete design variables. Harmony search, as a metaheuristic algorithm concepted from music improvisation, has been vigorously applied to various structural design problems, obtaining good results. Thus, this book gathers all the latest developments of harmony search algorithm in structural design field in order for readers to efficiently understand a full spectrum of the algorithm’s potential in structural design and to easily apply the algorithm to their own structural problems.
  table of contents: Standard Harmony Search Algorithm for Structural Design Optimization -- Optimum Design of Steel Frames via Harmony Search Algorithm -- Adaptive Harmony Search Algorithm for Design Code Optimization of Steel Structures -- Harmony Particle Swarm Algorithm for Structural Design Optimization -- Hybrid Algorithm of Harmony Search, Particle Swarm and Ant Colony for Structural Design Optimization -- Determining Viscoelastic and Damage Properties Based on Harmony Search Algorithm.
  note: edited by Zong Woo Geem.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Data structures (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Computational intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Civil engineering
  subject:
    topic: Buildings
    topic: Design and construction
  subject:
    topic: Building
  subject:
    topic: Construction
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, Architectural
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Building Construction
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  subject:
    topic: Data Structures
  subject:
    topic: Computational Intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Civil Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Design
  classification: TH1-9745
  classification: 690
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 239
  identifier: 9783642034503
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03450-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204151453.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-03450-3