On the application of multi-objective parallel asynchronous particle swarm optimization to engineering design problems

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 5, Issue PART A, 2010, Pages 497-505

  McDougall, Robin ^a   Nokleby, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ASYNCHRONOUS PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATIONS; ENGINEERING DESIGN PROBLEMS; MECHANISM SYNTHESIS; MULTI OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; MULTI-OBJECTIVE DESIGN; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION TOOLS; PARALLELIZATIONS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77953724931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-86973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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