Recent Advances in Computational Optimization: Results of the Workshop on Computational Optimization WCO 2013

✍ Scribed by Stefka Fidanova (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 580
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Our everyday life is unthinkable without optimization. We try to minimize our effort and to maximize the achieved profit. Many real world and industrial problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of extended contributions from the Workshop on Computational Optimization 2013. It presents recent advances in computational optimization. The volume includes important real life problems like parameter settings for controlling processes in bioreactor, resource constrained project scheduling, problems arising in transport services, error correcting codes, optimal system performance and energy consumption and so on. It shows how to develop algorithms for them based on new metaheuristic methods like evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization, constrain programming and others.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
A Three-Stage Heuristic for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows....Pages 1-19
Fuzzy Bicriteria Optimization Approach to Distribution Network Design....Pages 21-33
Robustness Tools in Dynamic Dial-a-Ride Problems....Pages 35-51
Multiple Shooting SQP Algorithm for Optimal Control of DAE Systems with Inconsistent Initial Conditions....Pages 53-65
A Constructive Algorithm for Partial Latin Square Extension Problem that Solves Hardest Instances Effectively....Pages 67-84
Branch and Price for Preemptive and Non Preemptive RCPSP Based on Interval Orders on Precedence Graphs....Pages 85-106
Population Size Influence on the Genetic and Ant Algorithms Performance in Case of Cultivation Process Modeling....Pages 107-120
A Hybrid Approach to Modeling, Solving and Optimization of the Constrained Decision Problems....Pages 121-142
Biased Random Key Genetic Algorithm for Multi-user Earth Observation Scheduling....Pages 143-160
Efficient and Scalable Pareto Front Generation for Energy and Makespan in Heterogeneous Computing Systems....Pages 161-180
Measuring Performance of a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm on a Set of Benchmark Functions....Pages 181-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-193

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Operation Research/Decision Theory