Stochastic Global Optimization and Its Applications with Fuzzy Adaptive Simulated Annealing

• Main Authors: Aguiar e Oliveira Junior, Hime (Author), Ingber, Lester (Author), Petraglia, Antonio (Author), Rembold Petraglia, Mariane (Author), Augusta Soares Machado, Maria (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 35
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Stochastic global optimization is a very important subject, that has applications in virtually all areas of science and technology. Therefore there is nothing more opportune than writing a book about a successful and mature algorithm that turned out to be a good tool in solving difficult problems. H...

Table of Contents:

• Global optimization and its applications
• Heuristic methods
• Fuzzy adaptive simulated annealing
• Unconstrained optimization
• Constrained optimization
• Applications to signal processing
• Fuzzy modeling with fuzzy adaptive simulated annealing
• Statistical estimation and global optimization
• Nonlinear equation solving
• Space-filling curves and fuzzy ASA
• Epilogue.