Structural engineering is focused on the safe and efficient design of infrastructure. Projects
can range in size and complexity, many requiring massive amounts of materials and …

The booming growth of computational abilities in the 21st century has led to its assimilation
and benefit in all horizons of engineering. For civil engineers, these advancements have led …

The chef-based optimization algorithm (CBOA) is a human-based method inspired by the
relationship between culinary students and chef instructors. The original CBOA does not …

A retaining wall is a structure used to resist the lateral pressure of soil or any backfill
material. Cantilever retaining walls provide resistance to overturning and sliding by using …

In this paper, cantilever retaining wall design is studied as an important optimization task in
civil engineering. The current study explores the efficiency of some recent swarm …

This paper explores the performance of three evolutionary optimization methods, differential
evolution (DE), evolutionary strategy (ES) and biogeography based optimization algorithm …

This paper investigates the performance of four multi-objective optimization algorithms,
namely non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II), multi-objective particle swarm …

Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) has been shown to yield good performance for solving
various optimization problems. However, it tends to suffer from premature convergence and …

Cancer diagnosis is usually an arduous task in medicine, especially when it comes to
pulmonary cancer, which is one of the most deadly and hard to treat types of that disease …

Semantic segmentation is vital for many emerging surveillance applications, but current
models cannot be relied upon to meet the required tolerance, particularly in complex tasks …