Applications of Metaheuristics and Optimization in Engineering

This book focuses on the principles and the state-of-the-art of metaheuristic methods for engineering optimization. This book shows how metaheuristics can be used to solve complex problems of engineering. The book is intended to present the main metaheuristics and approximate and stochastic methods for optimization of complex systems in Engineering Sciences. With its wide-range of everyday problems and solutions, this book can serve as a reference for researchers and engineers in metaheuristics, optimization in civil engineering and computational intelligence.