Optimization Theory, Methods, and Applications in Engineering 2014

Abstract

Optimization theory and methods have been applied in various fields to handle various practical problems over the past few decades.Many approaches have been proposed to solve engineering optimization problems, and the methods can be divided into deterministic and heuristic ones.With the advances in computing techniques and the increasing reliance on optimization-based approaches in real applications, optimization techniques have continuously received attention from the practitioners and the researchers and many novel approaches have been proposed in the last few years.This special issue aims to present some recent developments in the area of optimization theory, methods, and applications in engineering.This special issue involves 17 original papers, selected by the editors and related to the various researches themes on optimization theory, methods, and applications in engineering.According to the characteristics of the accepted papers, the special issue is organized as the following three parts and each part is composed of several important papers to the part's scope.