tailieunhanh - SEARCH ALGORITHMS FOR ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION

Heuristic Search is an important sub-discipline of optimization theory and finds applications in a vast variety of fields, including life science and engineering. Search methods have been useful in solving tough engineering-oriented problems that either could not be solved any other way or solutions take a very long time to be computed. This book explores a variety of applications for search methods and techniques in different fields of electrical engineering. | SEARCH ALGORITHMS FOR ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION Edited by Taufik Abrão Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization http 45841 Edited by Taufik Abrão Contributors Abdelkader Zeblah Rami Abdelkader Yoshio Uwano Bruno Augusto Angélico Márcio Mendonga Lúcia Valeria R. De Arruda Taufik Abrão Fabio Durand Alysson Santos Larissa Melo Lucas Garcia Oleksiy Pogrebnyak Enrique Guzmán Juan Gabriel Zambrano Nila Fernando Ciriaco Paul Jean E. Jeszensky Lucas Dias H. Sampaio Mateus De Paula Marques Mário Henrique Adaniya Aleksandar Jevtic Bo Li Chung-Ming Kuo Ivan Casella Alfeu Sguarezi Carlos Capovilla Ernesto Ruppert José Puma Hamid Reza Baghaee Majidi Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9 51000 Rijeka Croatia Copyright 2013 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license which allows users to download copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes as long as the author and publisher are properly credited which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech authors have the right to republish it in whole or part in any publication of which they are the author and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials instructions methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Iva Lipovic Technical Editor InTech DTP team Cover InTech Design team First published February 2013 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at