the concepts of structural optimization was introduced about sixty years ago. smiths from the university of los angeles (california) for the first time has offered the combination of finite element method and optimization techniques to design optimum structures (1960). at present time, this techniques are generally understood and many softwares for this perpose have been developed. in this pape...

Engineering optimization needs easy-to-use and efficient optimization tools that can be employed for practical purposes. In this context, stochastic search techniques have good reputation and wide acceptability as being powerful tools for solving complex engineering optimization problems. However, increased complexity of some metaheuristic algorithms sometimes makes it difficult for engineers t...

The current paper offers the solution strategy for economic dispatch problem in electric power system implementing ant lion optimization algorithm (ALOA) and bat (BA) techniques. In network, (ED) is a short-term calculation of optimum performance several electricity generations or plan outputs all usable generation units from energy produced to fulfill necessary demand, although equivalent uneq...

In the past decade, Graphics Processing Units have played an important role in field of high-performance computing and they still advance new fields such as IoT, autonomous vehicles, exascale computing. It is therefore to understand how extract performance from these processors, something that not trivial. This survey discusses various optimization techniques found 450 articles published last 1...

this paper proposes a method to solve multi-objective problems using improved particle swarm optimization. we propose leader particles which guide other particles inside the problem domain. two techniques are suggested for selection and deletion of such particles to improve the optimal solutions. the first one is based on the mean of the m optimal particles and the second one is based on appoin...