An improved hpsaco for engineering optimum design problems

Asian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-141

  Kaveh, A ^a   Talatahari, S ^b   Farahmand Azar, B ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Big bang big crunch algorithm; Engineering design problems; Optimization methods; Particle swarm ant colony optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649753618     PISSN: 15630854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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