Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are a useful tool to tackle real-world optimisation problems. Two important features that make these problems hard are multimodality and high dimensionality of the search landscape. In this paper, we present a real-parameter Genetic Algorithm (GA) which is effective in optimising high dimensional, multimodal functions. We compare our algorithm with a previously pub...

We study bounds on the effective conductivity and elastic moduli of two-phase isotropic composites that depend on geometrical parameters that take into account up to three-point statistical information concerning the composite microstructure. We summarize existing bounds, apply a special fractional linear transformation to simplify their functional forms, and describe two approaches to improve ...