This paper investigates the search performances of various meta-heuristics (MHs) for solving truss mass minimisation with dynamic constraints. Several established MHs were used to solve five truss optimisation problems. The results obtained from using the various MHs were statistically compared based upon convergence rate and consistency. It was found that the best optimisers for this design ta...

When designing novel drugs, the need arise to screen large databases of drug candidates (small synthesizable chemical structures) for structures that resemble active ligands, i.e. small chemical structures that are known to react with the target protein. If several active ligands are known one might improve the quality of the search by taking all of these into account. This can be done by gener...

A technique is described for the electromagnetic reconstruction of the location, shape, dielectric constant, and conductivity of buried homogeneous cylinders of elliptic cross-section. The inversion procedure is based on the Differential Evolution algorithm and the forward problem is solved using the single boundary integral method. Simulation results are presented which demonstrate that this h...

In a competitive environment, a stakeholder needs to be aware of the relative position of the alternative (for example, projects or products) in relation to those of their competitors, often accomplished through a comparison of alternatives. To demonstrate, a company knowing the chances of success of its proposed environmental project (Lahdelma, Salminen, & Hokkanen, 2000) and a manufacturer kn...

this paper describes the impact of the distance and the size of the corona ring, on the magnitude anddistribution of electrical potential across the polymer insulators. the procedure is based on finiteelement method numerical analysis and stochastic optimization algorithm of differential evolution(de). the optimal selection of corona ring has a significant impact on the control of potential and...

An effective method utilizing the differential evolution algorithm (DEA) as an optimisation solver is suggested here to detect the location and extent of single and multiple damages in structural systems using time domain response method. Changes in acceleration response of structure are considered as a criterion for damage occurrence. The acceleration of structures is obtained using Newmark me...

in this article differential transformation method (dtms) has been used to solve neutral functional-differential equations with proportional delays. the method can simply be applied to many linear and nonlinear problems and is capable of reducing the size of computational work while still providing the series solution with fast convergence rate. exact solutions can also be obtained from the kno...

A modified F-expansion method to find the exact traveling wave solutions of  two-component nonlinear partial differential equations (NLPDEs) is discussed. We use this method to construct many new solutions to the nonlinear Whitham-Broer-Kaup system (1+1)-dimensional. The solutions obtained include Jacobi elliptic periodic wave solutions which exactly degenerate to the soliton solutions, triangu...