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Taxonomy of optimisation techniques and applications

  • Carsten Maple
    ,
  • Edmond C. Prakash
    ,
  • Wei Huang
    ,
  • Adnan Nabeel Abid Qureshi
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

This paper presents a review of recent advances in optimisation techniques. Optimisation is a complex task and it is nearly impossible to identify a single technique which can act as a silver bullet in all contexts where scarcity and limitation of resources and constraints exist. The list of individual optimisation methods, their combinations and hybridisations is endless and, hence, it is imperative to classify them based on common attributes and highlight some of the salient industrial and research domains where they have been implemented. This paper concentrates on application areas of the different optimisation techniques in particular, with the objective to establish a practical taxonomy based on the combination of heuristic or non-heuristic nature of algorithms, nature of design variables and nature of equations. A précis of research at the University of Bedfordshire is also given to highlight the contributions made towards optimising different industrial and engineering problems exemplifying the latest trends and research arenas.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 251

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (Volume 49, Issue 3/4)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/06/2014

Publication status

Published - 01/06/2014

ISSN

0952-8091

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/333415
  • Scopus: 84905393979

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