Optimization Algorithms for Engineering Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Engineering application refers to applying theoretical knowledge, science, technology, scientific research results, experimental results, inventions, etc., through industrialization in the actual engineering of production, manufacturing, and construction processes. Various engineering applications are complex real-world problems. They are generally motivated by the ideas of evolution, human and animal behavior, or MPC (mathematics, physics, and chemistry). Optimization algorithms are widely acknowledged in the application of solving complex problems, such as non-convex, nonlinear constraints, and high-dimensional problems. There is a lot of literature on optimization algorithms, and they all eventually find the optimal solution through an exploration and exploitation process. Due to the stochastic nature of optimization algorithms, accurate and adequate results can be produced at a small cost.

This Special Issue intends to capture recent contributions of high-quality papers focusing on interdisciplinary research on the optimization algorithm for engineering applications using modern computational intelligence theories, approaches, and experiments. We invite the researchers to submit their original contributions addressing particular challenging aspects of optimization algorithms from theoretical and applied viewpoints. The topics of this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Optimization algorithms
• Swarm intelligence
• Meta-heuristics
• Engineering applications
• Engineering design problems
• Feature selection
• Image segmentation
• Real-world applications
• Constraint handling
• Benchmarks
• Novel Approaches
• Complicated Optimization Problems
• Industrial Problems

Prof. Dr. Heming Jia
Dr. Laith Abualigah
Guest Editors

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