An accessible introduction to metaheuristics and optimization, featuring powerful and
modern algorithms for application across engineering and the sciences From engineering …

A detailed review of a wide range of meta-heuristic and evolutionary algorithms in a
systematic manner and how they relate to engineering optimization problems This book …

Recent advances in civil engineering technology require greater accuracy, efficiency, and
speed in the analysis and design of the corresponding systems. It is therefore not surprising …

Mathematical Metaheuristics and Optimization in Computer and Electrical Engineering are a
rapidly emerging field of research that seeks to provide new and improved methods for …

Advances in civil engineering technology require greater accuracy, efficiency, and speed in
the analysis and design of the corresponding systems. It is therefore not surprising that new …

Optimization is everywhere, and thus it is an important paradigm with a wide range of
applications. In almost all applications in engineering and industry, we are trying to optimize …

Metaheuristic algorithms are present in various applications for different domains. Recently,
researchers have conducted studies on the effectiveness of these algorithms in providing …

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional
energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become …

Metaheuristics has attained increasing interest for solving complex real-world problems.
This paper studies the principles and the state-of-the-art of metaheuristic methods for …

Heuristic methods are used when rigorous ones are either unknown or cannot be applied,
typically because they would be too slow. A metaheuristic is a general optimization …