Charged particle swarm optimization (CPSO) is well suited to the dynamic search problem since inter-particle repulsion maintains population diversity and good tracking can be achie...
Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies (eNES) is a novel alternative to conventional evolutionary algorithms, using the natural gradient to adapt the mutation distribution. Unlike...
We study the integration of functions with respect to an unknown density. Information is available as oracle calls to the integrand and to the nonnormalized density function. We ar...
: This paper describes the implementation of a meta-heuristic optimization approach, Tabu Search (TS), for Heat Exchanger Networks (HEN) synthesis and compares this approach to oth...
Variable selection problems are typically addressed under a penalized optimization framework. Nonconvex penalties such as the minimax concave plus (MCP) and smoothly clipped absol...