pumps are among the early instruments invented by humans to be taken advantage of in the use of water utilities. design and operation problem of pumping stations is a type of mixed integer non linear programming, in which gradient based optimization methods are not efficient for solving complex problems of this type. in this regard, such evolutionary optimization algorithms as genetic algorithm...

In this work a strong framework is presented for solving the constrained nonlinear optimization problem that is a relatively complicated problem. These problems arise in a diverse range of sciences. There are a number of different approaches have been proposed. In this work, we employ the imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) for solving constrained nonlinear optimization problems. Some well-...

Abstract Support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most important class learning models and algorithms, has been successfully applied in various fields. Nonlinear optimization plays a crucial role SVM methodology, both defining designing convergent efficient algorithms for large-scale training problems. In this paper we present convex programming problems underlying focusing on supervised bina...