Accelerating fuzzy genetic algorithm for the optimization of steel structures

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-285

  Ashtari, Payam ^a   Barzegar, Farshid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy genetic; Membership function; Membership value; Overall satisfaction parameter; Penalty function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; CONVERGENCE RATES; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; FUZZY GENETIC; FUZZY GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MEMBERSHIP VALUE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; OVERALL SATISFACTION PARAMETER; PENALTY FUNCTION; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RANDOM VALUES; REAL VALUES;

FUZZY LOGIC; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; STEEL STRUCTURES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84859567748     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-011-0700-5     Document Type: Article

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