A genetic algorithm encoding for cardinality constraints and automatic variable linking in structural optimization

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3708-3723

  Barbosa, Helio J C ^a   Lemonge, Afonso C C ^b   Borges, Carlos C H ^a  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardinality constraint; Genetic algorithm; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ADAPTIVE PENALTIES; ALGORITHM ENCODING; CARDINALITY CONSTRAINT; CARDINALITY CONSTRAINTS; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN VARIABLES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 55949119812     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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