Improvement of Constraint Handling Technique for MOPSO Integrated with Constraint Sensitivity Analysis

Analysis and Improvement of Constraint Handling in Ant Colony Algorithms

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Differential Equation of Sensitivity Matrix for Final Velocity Constraint

Reliability Measures Improvement and Sensitivity Analysis of a Coal Handling Unit for Thermal Power Plant

The present paper investigates the reliability and sensitivity analysis of a coal handling unit of a thermal power plant using a probabilistic approach. Coal handling unit is the main block of a thermal power plant and it is necessary for a good function of a power plant that its power supply, which is dealt in coal handling unit, must function continuously without any obstacle. The configurati...

A geometry constraint handling technique for stiffener layout optimization problem

Beam stiffeners have frequently been used for raising natural frequencies of base structures. In stiffener layout optimization problems, most of the previous researches considering the position and/or the length of the stiffener as design variables dealt with structures having just simple convex shapes such as a square or rectangle. The reason was because concave shape structures have difficult...

Constraint-Handling Techniques C5.6 Other constraint-handling methods

This section discusses several additional constraint-handling methods which have been proposed in connection with evolutionary techniques.