Optimum Seeking Methods Applied to Nuclear Reactor Design

Automatic Differentiation for Optimum Design, Applied to Sonic Boom Reduction

Computational Methods Applied to Rational Drug Design

Due to the synergic relationship between medical chemistry, bioinformatics and molecular simulation, the development of new accurate computational tools for small molecules drug design has been rising over the last years. The main result is the increased number of publications where computational techniques such as molecular docking, de novo design as well as virtual screening have been used to...

Evolution and optimum seeking

Preface In 1963 two students at the Technical University of Berlin met and were soon to collaborate on experiments which used the wind tunnel of the Institute of Flow Engineering. During the search for the optimal shapes of bodies in a ow, which w as then a matter of laborious intuitive experimentation, the idea was conceived of proceeding strategically. However, attempts with the coordinate an...

specialized methods to teach spelling: comparing three methods

چکیده: بررسی ادبیات مربوطه در کشور در زمینه یادگیری زبان انگلیسی نشان می‎دهد که علی‎رغم اهمیت املا در فرآیند یادگیری به طور عام و یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به طور خاص، این مولفه از جایگاهی متناسب با اهمیت آن برخوردار نیست و عمدتاً نادیده گرفته شده است. تحقیقات گسترده‎ای در خارج از کشور در مورد ماهیت این مولفه صورت گرفته است، در حالی که به جرأت می‎توان گفت در داخل کشور گامی در مورد درک ماهیت آن و فرآی...

Applied Soft Computing for Optimum Design of Structures

In this study a critical assessment of three metaheuristic optimization algorithms, namely differential evolution, harmony search and particle swarm optimization, is performed with reference to their efficiency and robustness for the optimum design of real-world structures. Furthermore, a neural network based prediction scheme of the structural response, required to assess the quality of each c...