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Optimization advances in electric power systems

Table of Contents: “…Results for Individual Wind Power Bid -- 2.6. Results for Combined Hydro-wind Power Bid -- 2.6.1. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Semiconductor Industry - Materials to Applications. by Wee, Hui-Ming

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Guest editorial -- Efficient VLSI architecture for FIR filter design using modified differential evolution ant colony optimization algorithm -- Optimized DA-reconfigurable FIR filters for software defined radio channelizer applications -- Grid -- connected operation and performance of hybrid DG having PV and PEMFC -- High speed data encryption technique with optimized memory based RSA algorithm for communications -- A 10-bit 200 MS/s pipelined ADCwith parallel sampling and switched op-amp sharing technique…”
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Optimization in Engineering Sciences : Approximate and Metaheuristic Methods. by Stefanoiu, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Update through elitist strategy; 2.4.3.4. Update by ants ranking; 2.4.4. Systemic ant colony algorithm; 2.4.5. …”
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Open innovation : new product development essentials from the PDMA

Table of Contents: “…Pricing Algorithm --…”
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Engineering optimization : an introduction with metaheuristic applications by Yang, Xin-She

Table of Contents: “…Genetic Algorithms -- Simulated Annealing -- Ant Algorithms -- Bee Algorithms -- Particle Swarm Optimization -- Harmony Search -- Firefly Algorithm -- Applications. …”
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High performance programming for soft computing

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9: A Compendium of Artificial Immune SystemsChapter 10: Applications of Artificial Immune Algorithms; Chapter 11: A Parallel Implementation ofthe NSGA-II; Chapter 12: High-performance Navigation System for Mobile Robots; Chapter 13: A Method Using a Combination of Ant Colony Optimization Variants with Ant Set Partitioning; Chapter 14: Variants of Ant Colony Optimization: A Metaheuristic for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem; Chapter 15: Quantum Computing; Color Plate Section; Back Cover.…”
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Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing. by Tiwari, Manoj

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Production Planning Using Genetic Algorithm; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Production Planning Models; 1.3 Genetic Algorithm; 1.4 Implementation of GA; 1.5 Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Process Planning through Ant Colony Optimization; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Ant Colony Optimization (ACO); References; Chapter 3: Introducing a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Integration of Set Up and Process Planning; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Process Planning; 3.3 Machine Set-up Time; 3.4 Chromosome Representation.…”
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Introduction to Mathematical Optimization : From Linear Programming to Metaheuristics. by Yang, Xin-She

Table of Contents: “…Tabu Search""; ""8.1 Tabu Search""; ""8.2 Travelling Salesman Problem""; ""8.3 Tabu Search for TSP""; ""9. Ant Colony Optimization""; ""9.1 Behaviour of Ants""; ""9.2 Ant Colony Optimization""; ""9.3 Double Bridge Problem""; ""9.4 Multi-Peak Functions""; ""10. …”
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Stochastic global optimization : techniques and applications in chemical engineering

Table of Contents: “…Differential evolution : method, developments and chemical engineering applications / Chen Shaoqiang, Gade Pandu Rangaiah and Mekapati Srinivas -- ch. 7. Ant colony optimization : details of algorithms suitable for process engineering / V.K. …”
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Artificial neural systems : principle and practice by Lorrentz, Pierre

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTIONDENSITY BASED ALGORITHMS: CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; NATURE-BASED ALGORITHMS; Evolutionary Algorithm and Programming ; Genetic Algorithm; GA Operators; APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC ALGORITHM; NETWORK METHOD: EDGES AND NODES; MULTI-LAYERED PERCEPTRON; REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS OF STATE-OF-THE-ART ANN SYSTEMS; DEFINITION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (ANN); Intelligence; An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) system; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; Receiver's Operating Characteristics (ROC); Hypothesis Testing; Chi-squared (Goodness-of-fit) Test; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES…”
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Generalized Network Design Problems : Modeling and Optimization. by Pop, Petrică C.

Table of Contents: “…3.2 An efficient transformation of the GTSP into the TSP3.3 An exact algorithm for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem; 3.4 Integer programming formulations of the GTSP; 3.4.1 Formulations based on the properties of Hamiltonian tours; 3.4.2 Flow based formulations; 3.4.3 A local-global formulation; 3.5 Solving the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem; 3.5.1 Reinforcing ant colony system for solving the GTSP; 3.5.2 Computational results; 3.5.3 A hybrid heuristic approach for solving the GTSP; 3.5.4 Computational results; 3.6 The drilling problem; 3.6.1 Stigmergy and autonomous robots.…”
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Bayesian Methods for Management and Business : Pragmatic Solutions for Real Problems. by Hahn, Eugene D.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4: Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Regression Models -- 4.1 Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo -- 4.2 Fundamentals of MCMC -- 4.3 Gibbs Sampling -- 4.4 Gibbs Sampling and the Simple Linear Regression Model -- 4.5 In Practice: The Simple Linear Regression Model -- 4.6 The Metropolis Algorithm -- 4.7 Hastings' Extension of the Metropolis Algorithm -- 4.8 Summary -- 4.9 Exercises -- Chapter 5: Estimating Bayesian Models With WinBUGS -- 5.1 An Introduction to WinBUGS -- 5.2 In Practice: A First WinBUGS MODEL -- 5.3 In Practice: Models for the Mean in WinBUGS…”
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Methods for Network Optimization and Parallel Derivative-free Optimization. by Olsson, Per-Magnus

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Abstract -- Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning -- Acknowledgements -- Thesis Introduction -- Contents -- Part I Contributions to Network Optimization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 The Relay Positioning Problems -- 4 Environment Representation and Discretization -- 5 Relay Positioning Algorithms for Single Target Problems -- 6 Relay Positioning for Multiple Targets -- 7 Implementation and Experimental Results -- 8 Discussion -- Bibliography -- Part II Contributions to Derivative-free Optimization -- 9 Introduction -- 10 Setting And Problem Description -- 11 Direct Search Algorithms -- 12 Model Building Algorithms -- 13 Existing Model Building Algorithms -- 14 Radial Basis Functions -- 15 Parallelism in Algorithms for Derivative-Free Optimization -- 16 Information Sharing -- 17 Control of Optimization Algorithms -- 18 Implementation Details -- 19 Testing on Synthetic Test Cases -- 20 Testing On Industrial Test Cases -- 21 Future Work -- 22 Conclusions -- A Terms -- Bibliography.…”
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Navigation signal processing for GNSS software receivers by Pany, Thomas

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Machine learning : a Bayesian and optimization perspective by Theodoridis, Sergios, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Probability and stochastic processes -- Learning in parametric modeling: basic concepts and directions -- Mean-square error linear estimation -- Stochastic gradient descent: the LMS algorithm -- The least-squares family -- Classification: a tour of the classics -- Parameter learning: a convex analytic path -- Sparsity-aware learning: concepts and theoretical foundations -- Sparcity-aware learning: algorithms and applications -- Learning in reproducing Kernel Hilbert spaces -- Bayesian learning: inference and the EM alogrithm -- Bayesian learning: approximate inference and nonparametric models -- Monte Carlo methods -- Probabilistic graphical models: Part I -- Probabilistic graphical models: Part II -- Particle filtering -- Neural networks and deep learning -- Dimensionality reduction -- Appendix A LInear algebra -- Appendix B Probability theory and statistics -- Appendix C Hints on constrained optimization.…”
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Recent advances in hybrid metaheuristics for dataclustering

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Metaheuristic Algorithms in Fuzzy Clustering -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Fuzzy Clustering -- 1.2.1 Fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering -- 1.3 Algorithm -- 1.3.1 Selection of Cluster Centers -- 1.4 Genetic Algorithm -- 1.5 Particle Swarm Optimization -- 1.6 Ant Colony Optimization -- 1.7 Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm -- 1.8 Local Search-Based Metaheuristic Clustering Algorithms -- 1.9 Population-Based Metaheuristic Clustering Algorithms -- 1.9.1 GA-Based Fuzzy Clustering…”
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Solar energy engineering : processes and systems by Kalogirou, Soteris A.

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Learning Boost C++ libraries : solve practical programming problems using powerful, portable, and expressive libraries from Boost by Mukherjee, Arindam

Table of Contents: “…Shared ownership semanticsboost::shared_ptr and std::shared_ptr; Intrusive smart pointers -- boost::intrusive_ptr; shared_array; Managing non-memory resources using smart pointers; Self-test questions; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Working with Strings; Text processing with Boost String Algorithms library; Using Boost String Algorithms; Find algorithms; Case-conversion and trimming algorithms; The replace and erase algorithms; The split and join algorithms; Splitting text using the Boost Tokenizer library; Tokenizing based on separators…”
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Autonomous mobile robots and multi-robot systems : motion-planning, communication, and swarming

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Advances in Computational Intelligence : Theory & Applications by Wang, Fei-Yue

Table of Contents: “…Lin and F.-Y. Wang -- 8. Ant colony algorithms: the state-of-the-art / J. …”
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