Evolutionary approaches to solve three challenging engineering tasks
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Evolutionary approaches to solve three challenging engineering tasks
zbMATH Open document ID: 0986.74060
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00382-5
author: Martin Schütz
author: Hans-Paul Schwefel
published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
publication date: 2002-06-11T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors present three applications of evolutionary algorithms, namely the optimization of nuclear core reload design, the synthesis of multilayer optical coatings, and the synthesis of chemical engineering plants. The given examples demonstrate the applicability of the evolutionary approach to solve complex real-world problems, which often can be characterized as mixed-integer, variable-dimensional and multi-criteria optimization problems. Additionally, instead of using an objective function in closed form, the authors use complex simulation models as objective functions, thus prohibiting success for classical analysis. Whereas standard evolutionary algorithms are not able to solve the three complex tasks described above, the enhanced evolutionary algorithms (EAs) clearly demonstrate their potential to treat these problems. Finally, the authors show that the parallel EAs can improve the reliability and performance of evalutionary algorithms.
reviewed by: Ladislav Prášek
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 74P99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92E99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82D75
zbMATH DE Number: 1488506
zbMATH Keywords: nuclear core reload design
zbMATH Keywords: multilayer optical coatings
zbMATH Keywords: chemical engineering plants
zbMATH Keywords: multi-criteria optimization
zbMATH Keywords: enhanced evolutionary algorithms
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describes a project that uses: PVM
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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