Editorial: Innovative Approaches in Computational Structural Engineering

Innovative Approaches to Engineering Education

Innovation is about doing useful things differently: converting novel ideas and methods into solutions that meet new needs, or adding significant value to established products and services. In engineering education, new technological and practice requirements necessitate curriculum innovation, while innovation in educational practice can improve students’ learning and faculty productivity. Most...

Computational Approaches in Metabolic Engineering

Metabolic engineering involves the adjustment of metabolic and regulatory processes to improve desired cellular behaviors, such as the production of proteins and chemicals. Since cellular metabolic and regulatory networks are often large and complex, the construction and analysis of computational models of these networks can be useful for identifying current network states and evaluating the ef...

Innovative Computational Methods for Structural Optimization

The objective of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of combinatorial optimization methods and in particular algorithms based on evolution strategies, when incorporated into structural optimization problems. Evolution strategies algorithms are used either on a stand-alone basis, or combined with a conventional mathematical programming technique. Furthermore, the structural analysis phas...

Computational and Structural Approaches in Drug Discovery

Editorial: Computational and Experimental Approaches in Multi-target Pharmacology