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Suitable for design courses and computation in engineering and a reference for researchers and engineers in metaheursitics, this book examines developments of metaheuristics and their applications in water, geotechnical and transport engineering offering practical case studies as examples to demonstrate real world applications.
List of contents
1. Optimization and Metaheuristic Algorithms in Engineering 2.Application of Soft Computing Methods in Water Resources Engineering (Hazi Mohammad Azamathulla)
3.Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications to Water resources Systems
4.Application of Hybrid HS-Solver Algorithm to the Solution of Groundwater Management Problems
5.Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization of the Water Distribution Networks
6.Ant Colony Optimization for Parameters Estimating of Flood Frequency Distributions
7.Optimal Reservoir Operation for Irrigation Planning Using Swarm Intelligence Algorithm
8.Artificial Intelligence in Geotechnical Engineering: Applications, Modelling Aspects and Future Directions
9.Hybrid heuristic optimization methods in geotechnical engineering
10.Artificial neural network in geotechncial engineering: modelling and application issues
11.Geotechnical Applications of Bayesian Neural Networks
12.Linear and Tree-Based Genetic Programming for Solving Geotechnical Engineering Problems
13.A New Approach to Modelling the Behaviour of Geomaterials
14.Slope Stability analysis using Metaheuristics
15.Scheduling Transportation Networks and Reliability Analysis of Geostructures using Metaheuristics
16.Metaheuristic Applications in Highway and Rail Infrastructure Planning and Design: Implications to Energy and Environmental Sustainability
17.Multi-Objective Optimization of Delay and Stops in Traffic Signal Networks
18.An improved Hybrid Algorithm for Stochastic Bus-Network Design
19.Hybrid method and its application toward smart Pavement Management
