Computational Optimization and Applications in Engineering and Industry

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yang, Xin-She (Editor), Koziel, Slawomir (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 359
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Contemporary design in engineering and industry relies heavily on computer simulation and efficient algorithms to reduce the cost and to maximize the performance and sustainability as well as profits and energy efficiency. Solving an optimization problem correctly and efficiently requires not only t...

Table of Contents:

• Adjoint-Based Control of Model and Discretization Errors for Gas and Water Supply Networks
• Derivative-Free Optimization for Oil Field Operations
• Simulation-Driven Design in Microwave Engineering: Application Case Studies
• Airfoil Shape Optimization Using Variable-Fidelity Modeling and Shape-Preserving Response Prediction
• Evolutionary Optimisation Techniques to Estimate Input Parameters in Environmental Emergency Modelling
• Harmony Search Algorithms in Structural Engineering
• Waveform Optimization for Integrated Radar and Communication Systems Using Meta-Heuristic Algorithms
• Parameter Estimation from Laser Flash Experiment Data
• Applications of Computational Intelligence in Behavior Simulation
• A New Approach to Network Optimization Using Chaos-Genetic Algorithm.