Intelligent Computational Optimization in Engineering by Mario Kppen

Intelligent Computational Optimization in Engineering by Mario Kppen

We often come across computational optimization virtually in all branches of engineering and industry. Many engineering problems involve heuristic search and optimization, and, once discretized, may become combinatorial in nature, which gives rise to certain difficulties in terms of solution procedure. Some of these problems have enormous search spaces, are NP-hard and hence require heuristic solution techniques. Another difficulty is the lack of ability of classical solution techniques to determine appropriate optima of non-convex problems. Under these conditions, recent advances in computational optimization techniques have been shown to be advantageous and successful compared to classical approaches.

 

This Volume presents some of the latest developments with a focus on the design of algorithms for computational optimization and their applications in practice. Through the chapters of this book, researchers and practitioners share their experience and newest methodologies with regard to intelligent optimization and provide various case studies of the application of intelligent optimization techniques in real-world applications.This book can serve as an excellent reference for researchers and graduate students in computer science, various engineering disciplines and the industry.

Schaefer, Gerald: - Gerald Schaefer grew up in Cut Bank, Montana a small town near the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and Glacier National Park to the west and Alberta, Canada to the north (I have to pinpoint a little cause not everyone has seen the movie.) In 1954 I went away to a Catholic boarding school in De Pere, Wisconsin for 3 of my 4 high school years. Upon graduating, I attended a Norbertine monastery, also in De Pere, where I studied for the priesthood for 4 years. After leaving the priesthood path, I taught in various schools in the midwest and California until retiring from Los Angeles Unified School District in 2000 where I had been teaching Special Education at Edison Middle School. I have two children and four grandchildren from my first marriage as well as two stepchildren and four grandchildren from my second marriage. My second wife died in August from AZ. My first wife still resides near Madison, Wisconsin. My life took a dramatic turn when I read The Power of Now, recommended by a classmate at Cut Bank High School reunion in 2008. Since then I have experienced new, added dimensions to 'my' life (not sure if it's 'mine' anymore), which exceed anything I might have previously imagined. To put it simply, life now 'works, ' whereas it previous didn't (and was problematic at best, catastrophic at worst). Or even more simply, I have no complaints!

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ISBN 13	9783642269400
ISBN 10	3642269400
Title	Intelligent Computational Optimization in Engineering
Author	Ajith Abraham
Series	Studies In Computational Intelligence
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer
Year published	2013-11-27
Number of pages	400
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