Planning for supply water demands (drinkable and irrigation water demands) is a necessary problem. For this purpose, three subjects must be considered (optimization of water supply systems such as volume of reservoir dams, optimization of released water from reservoir and prediction of next droughts). For optimization of volume of reservoir dams, yield model is applied. Reliability of yield mod...

due to project evaluation complexity and resource constraints, the project portfolio optimization is numerous decision making challenges. hence, many researches have been done to introduce model and methods for portfolio optimization. but most of them have not considered the interaction between projects. considering the interactions between projects increase complexity of portfolio optimization...

pumps are among the early instruments invented by humans to be taken advantage of in the use of water utilities. design and operation problem of pumping stations is a type of mixed integer non linear programming, in which gradient based optimization methods are not efficient for solving complex problems of this type. in this regard, such evolutionary optimization algorithms as genetic algorithm...

abstract icssdom is a mathematical synthetic model that was written with fortran77 and in which used sa simulation annealing algorithm like an internal loop in basic structure of icss hydrodynamic simulation model. this model presented by mohseni movahed in 1381. this model is able assess current performance and present optimal operation considering downstream requirement of turnout in real con...

this paper presents a strategy for using harmony search algorithm in facility layout optimization problems. in this paper an adapted harmony search algorithm is developed for solving facility layout optimization problems. this method finds an optimal facility arrangement in an existing layout. two real-world case studies are employed to demonstrate the efficiency of this model. a comparison is ...

this paper presents a hybrid method for the optimization of forging process of an aerofoil blade. preform shape and die parting-line angle are optimized in order to minimize the volume of the unfilled die cavity, material waste, forging forces. the overall optimization scheme used in this research work includes a multi-objective approach that is combination of response surface and finite elemen...

nowadays, different methods are used to solve optimization problems which ,one of the newest is bco method that are inspired by the nature and derived from the social life of bees of these methods can be noted that bco is derived from the social life of bees. we use in this paper fuzzy logic for bee‟s decision stage. at the end, we solve two different problem that have already been solved by es...