Group Search Optimization for Applications in Structural Design

• Main Authors: Li, Lijuan (Author), Liu, Feng (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, 9
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Structural mechanics.; Civil engineering.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Civil Engineering.; Structural Mechanics.

Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However, constructing these structures requires lots of budget. Thus, how to cost-efficiently design structures satisfying all required design constraints is an important...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction of swarm intelligent algorithms
• Chapter 2 Application of particle swarm optimization algorithm to engineering structures
• Chapter 3 Optimum design of structures with heuristic particle swarm optimization algorithm .-Chapter 4 Optimum design of structures with group search optimizer algorithm .-Chapter 5 Improvements and applications of group search optimizer in structural optimal design .-Chapter 6 Optimum design of structures with quick group search optimization algorithm .-Chapter 7 Group search optimizer and its applications on multi-objective structural optimal design .-Chapter 8 Prospecting  swarm intelligent algorithms.