Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dealing with practical applications in the civil and environmental engineering, this book deals the methods as well as problems with emphasis on applications to Civil Engineering topics. This book summarizes recently developed methods and theories in the developing direction for applications of artificial intelligence in civil engineering, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, expert system, reasoning, classification, and learning, as well as others like chaos theory, cuckoo search, firefly algorithm, knowledge-based engineering, and simulated annealing.