Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications

NP-hard optimization problems that are found in many engineering domains pose great challenges to traditional algorithmic solutions. The search space normally encompasses a huge number of local optimal and the computational effort to achieve a global optimum can be very huge for practical use. In th...

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Main Author: Chiao Mei, Florence Choong
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spelling my-mmu-ep.34032012-03-23T04:41:22Z Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications 2010-05 Chiao Mei, Florence Choong TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) NP-hard optimization problems that are found in many engineering domains pose great challenges to traditional algorithmic solutions. The search space normally encompasses a huge number of local optimal and the computational effort to achieve a global optimum can be very huge for practical use. In this thesis, the design, analysis. improvement and application of metaheuristics for hard CO problems is presented. The research is motivated by four engineering applications that covers high-level synthesis, multiprocessor scheduling, flexible manufacturing systems and hybrid flow shop scheduling. 2010-05 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3403/ http://vlib.mmu.edu.my/diglib/login/dlusr/login.php phd doctoral University of Multimedia Research Library
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Chiao Mei, Florence Choong
Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications
description NP-hard optimization problems that are found in many engineering domains pose great challenges to traditional algorithmic solutions. The search space normally encompasses a huge number of local optimal and the computational effort to achieve a global optimum can be very huge for practical use. In this thesis, the design, analysis. improvement and application of metaheuristics for hard CO problems is presented. The research is motivated by four engineering applications that covers high-level synthesis, multiprocessor scheduling, flexible manufacturing systems and hybrid flow shop scheduling.
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author Chiao Mei, Florence Choong
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title Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications
title_short Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications
title_full Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications
title_fullStr Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications
title_full_unstemmed Novel Hybrid Metaheuristics And Algorithm Extensions For Optimization Of Engineering Applications
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