Modified harmony methods for slope stability problems

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 191, Issue , 2009, Pages 141-162

  Cheng, Yung Ming ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Factor of safety; Global minimum; Modified harmony search; Objective function; Slope stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549160063     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00185-7_9     Document Type: Article

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