The book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil e

This book discusses the application of metaheuristic algorithms in a number of important optimization problems in civil engineering. Advances in civil engineeri

This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature. The first group of chapters descri

Metaheuristic optimization is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provid