Recent Advances in Computational Optimization : Results of the Workshop on Computational Optimization Wco 2014 (Hardcover)--by Stefka Fidanova [2015 Edition] ISBN: 9783319211329

This volume is a comprehensive collection of extended contributions from the Workshop on Computational Optimization 2014, held at Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014. The book presents recent advances in computational optimization. The volume includes important real problems like parameter settings for controlling processes in bioreactor and other processes, resource constrained project scheduling, infection distribution, molecule distance geometry, quantum computing, real-time management and optimal control, bin packing, medical image processing, localization the abrupt atmospheric contamination source and so on. It shows how to develop algorithms for them based on new metaheuristic methods like evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization, constrain programming and others. This research demonstrates how some real-world problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks. Front Matter....Pages i-x Finding Optimal Discretization Orders for Molecular Distance Geometry by Answer Set Programming....Pages 1-15 Estimation of Edge Infection Probabilities in the Inverse Infection Problem....Pages 17-36 On a Quantum Algorithm for the Resolution of Systems of Linear Equations....Pages 37-53 Synthesis of Self-Adaptive Supervisors of Multi-Task Real-Time Object-Oriented Systems Using Developmental Genetic Programming....Pages 55-74 Direct Shooting Method for Optimal Control of the Highly Nonlinear Differential-Algebraic Systems....Pages 75-90 A Review on the Direct and Indirect Methods for Solving Optimal Control Problems with Differential-Algebraic Constraints....Pages 91-105 InterCriteria Analysis of ACO and GA Hybrid Algorithms....Pages 107-126 A Two-Stage Look-Ahead Heuristic for Packing Spheres into a Three-Dimensional Bin of Minimum Length....Pages 127-144 Handling Lower Bound and Hill-Climbing Strategies for Sphere Packing Problems....Pages 145-164 Multi-Objective Meta-Evolution Method for Large-Scale Optimization Problems....Pages 165-182 Dispersive Flies Optimisation and Medical Imaging....Pages 183-203 An Efficient Solution of the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem Based on an Adaptation of the Developmental Genetic Programming....Pages 205-223 Bayesian-Based Approach to Application of the Genetic Algorithm to Localize the Abrupt Atmospheric Contamination Source....Pages 225-244 Optimization is part of our everyday life. We try to organize our work in a better way and optimization occurs in minimizing time and cost or the maximization of the profit, quality and efficiency.Also many real world problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks.This volume is a comprehensive collection of extended contributions from the Workshop on Computational Optimization.This book presents recent advances in computational optimization. The volume includes important real world problems like parameter settings for con- trolling processes in bioreactor, robot skin wiring, strip packing, project scheduling, tuning of PID controller and so on. Some of them can be solved by applying traditional numerical methods, but others need a huge amount of computational resources. For them it is shown that is appropriate to develop algorithms based on metaheuristic methods like evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization, constrain programming etc.