Presently, the introduction of intelligent models to optimize structural problems has become an important issue in civil engineering and almost all other fields of engineering. Optimization models in artificial intelligence have enabled us to provide powerful and practical solutions to structural optimization problems. In this study, a novel method for optimizing structures as well as solving s...

ant colony optimisation (aco) algorithm and adaptive refinement mechanism are used in this paper for solution of optimization problems. many of the real engineering problems are، however، of continuous nature and finding their solution by discrete ant based algorithms requires discretisation of the decision variables in which affected the convergence and performance of the algorithm. in this pa...

The development of software has become critical to progress in many important scientific and engineering fields. In general, the use of business/IT software engineering practices in these fields is relatively low. This paper describes the results of a survey of Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) developers that analyzed the current state of software engineering in the CSE community. Spec...

in chemical engineering, several processes are represented by singular boundary value problems. in general, classical numerical methods fail to produce good approximations for the singular boundary value problems. in this paper, chebyshev finite difference (chfd) method and dtm-pad´e method, which is a combination of differential transform method (dtm) and pad´e approximant, are applied for sol...

of software analysis and design. Software theories, such as temporal logic, CSP and CCS, have not been fully applied in control systems analysis or synthesis either. The core of software engineering and that of control theory/engineering have been developed independently of each other. The feasibility of bringing these two cores together has rarely been explored. Our proposed concept of softwar...

the purpose of this paper is to analyze in detail a special nonlinear partial differentialequation (npde) of the second order which is important in physical, chemical and technicalapplications. the present npde describes nonlinear diffusion and is of interest in several partsof physics, chemistry and engineering problems alike. since nature is not linear intrinsicallythe nonlinear case is there...

Engineering is a set of disciplines seeking solutions for complicated problems and systems that could not be done by individuals. The aim of engineering is to repetitively produce complicated artefacts in an efficient way. This paper describes a set of generic engineering principles and an engineering maturity model. With the engineering principles and model, the nature and status of software e...

Many engineering design problems can be formulated as optimization problems with constraints. In this paper we have proposed two modified variants of differential evolution (DE) for solving constrained engineering design problems. Paretoranking method is used to handle constrained with proposed approaches. The proposed variants named EDE-1 and EDE-2 are tested on 4 engineering design optimizati...

The microprocessor is playing an increasingly important role in a wide range of engineering applications. Engineers from all disciplines benefit from learning the power of the microprocessor in solving engineering problems. Within colleges or schools of engineering, microprocessor courses are currently taught by electrical engineering departments and in some cases by mechanical engineering depa...