Overview
- State of the art in Computational Optimization
- Presents various Applications in Engineering and Industry
- Written by leading experts in the field
Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 356)
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Computational optimization is an important paradigm with a wide range of applications. In virtually all branches of engineering and industry, we almost always try to optimize something - whether to minimize the cost and energy consumption, or to maximize profits, outputs, performance and efficiency. In many cases, this search for optimality is challenging, either because of the high computational cost of evaluating objectives and constraints, or because of the nonlinearity, multimodality, discontinuity and uncertainty of the problem functions in the real-world systems. Another complication is that most problems are often NP-hard, that is, the solution time for finding the optimum increases exponentially with the problem size. The development of efficient algorithms and specialized techniques that address these difficulties is of primary importance for contemporary engineering, science and industry.
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This book consists of 12 self-contained chapters, contributed from worldwide experts who are working in these exciting areas. The book strives to review and discuss the latest developments concerning optimization and modelling with a focus on methods and algorithms for computational optimization. It also covers well-chosen, real-world applications in science, engineering and industry. Main topics include derivative-free optimization, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, surrogate-based methods, maximum simulated likelihood estimation, support vector machines, and metaheuristic algorithms. Application case studies include aerodynamic shape optimization, microwave engineering, black-box optimization, classification, economics, inventory optimization and structural optimization. This graduate level book can serve asan excellent reference for lecturers, researchers and students in computational science, engineering and industry.
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Keywords
- Design optimization
- Design optimization
- derivative-free optimization
- derivative-free optimization
- engineering optimization
- engineering optimization
- evolutionary algorithms
- evolutionary algorithms
- firefly algorithm
- firefly algorithm
- genetic algorithms
- genetic algorithms
- gradient-based method
- gradient-based method
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computational Optimization, Methods and Algorithms
Editors: Slawomir Koziel, Xin-She Yang
Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20859-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-20858-4Published: 17 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52004-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-20859-1Published: 17 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1860-949X
Series E-ISSN: 1860-9503
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 283