Chapter 2: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms for Engineering Applications Chapter 3: Memetic Algorithms Chapter 4: Scatter Search and Path Relinking: Foundations and Advanced Designs Chapter 5: Ant Colony Optimization Chapter 6: Differential Evolution Chapter 7: SOMA-Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm Chapter 8: Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization:Illustrated by the Traveling Salesman Pro...

We review the recent progress in the design of e cient algorithms for various problems in geometric optimization. The emphasis in this survey is on the techniques used to attack these problems, such as parametric searching, geometric alternatives to parametric searching, prune-and-search techniques for linear programming and related problems, and LP-type problems and their e cient solution.

Digital watermarking (DWM) becomes a multidisciplinary research area involving theory of communications, signal processing, multimedia coding, information theory, cryptography, computer science and game theory etc. This chapter looks digital watermarking as an optimization problem from different combination of these areas. The goal is to resolve the conflicting requirements of different paramet...

1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, AB, Canada T6G 2V4 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel 4Department of Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 5 Institute for ...

Generally, combinatorial optimization problems are easy to formulate, but hard to solve. The most successfull approaches, cutting plane algorithms and column generation, rely on the (mixed) integer linear programming formulation of a problem. The theory of polyhedra, i.e., polyhedral combinatorics, is the foundation of these techniques. This manuscript intends to give an overview of polyhedral ...

We present a mathematical framework for maximization of single user throughput in a wireless channel using the symbol rate, the packet length, and the constellation size of MQAM modulation as optimization variables. The throughput is defined as the number of bits per second correctly received. Trade-offs between the throughput and the communication range are observed, and equations are derived ...

One of the major purposes of optimization in civil engineering is to perform a suitable design for the structure. This goal has to fulfill technical criteria and contain the minimum economical costs. Building frames are of the most customary civil engineering structures. Therefore, optimization of these types of structures could be of a great concern from the economical viewpoints. One of the c...