General Authority for Educational Buildings (GAEB) in Egypt is responsible for new construction and maintenance of the educational building [1]. According to the Sixth Five- Years Plan in Egypt, the program of educational structures includes new construction of about 2915 schools, with 39.8 thousand classes. Also, maintenance works for buildings about 1250 schools. These works needs a high budg...

Cuckoo search (CS) has been recently proposed as a population-based optimization algorithm and it is has so far been successfully applied in a variety of fields. An efficient hybrid cuckoo search algorithm (HCSA) based on Powell direct search method is proposed for solving constrained engineering design optimization problems. The inertia weight of Levy flights is introduced to balance the abili...

This paper espouses the application of orthogonal array experiment to solve a class of engineering optimization problems encountered in systems engineering and architecting. It also illustrates the applicability of orthogonal array experiment in systems engineering and architecting with two examples: verification and validation of the performance of a bandwidth allocation algorithm and architec...

Optimization as an enabling technology has been one of the big success stories in process systems engineering. In this paper we present first a general review of optimization and its applications to a variety of problems in process systems engineering. Next, we provide an overview of two key areas: nonlinear programming and logic-based discrete/continuous optimization. In particular, recent adv...

one of the most important applications of multi-objective optimization is adjusting parameters ofpractical engineering problems in order to produce a more desirable outcome. in this paper, the decoupled sliding mode control technique (dsmc) is employed to stabilize an inverted pendulum which is a classic example of inherently unstable systems. furthermore, a new multi-objective particle swarm o...

In this paper, we present a review on non-gradient optimization methods with applications to structural engineering. Due to their versatility, there is a large use of heuristic methods of optimization in structural engineering. However, heuristic methods do not guarantee convergence to (locally) optimal solutions. As such, recently, there has been an increasing use of derivative-free optimizati...

Holistic methods covering the development process as a whole – e.g. systems engineering – have established themselves in product design. However, technical product optimization, representing improvements in efficiency and/or minimization of loss, usually applies to single components of a system. A holistic approach is being defined based on a hierarchical point of view of systems engineering. T...