Abstract Design of Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) is a tremendously hard optimization
problem, and consideration of reliability further adds to the complexity, which may involve …

The flow shop scheduling with blocking is considered an important scheduling problem
which has many real-world applications. This paper proposes a new algorithm which …

The design of a water distribution network (WDN) is an optimization problem that is
computationally challenging with conflicting objectives. This study offers an enhanced …

Self-adaptive cuckoo search algorithm is used to optimize the design of water distribution
system problems. It is proposed to dynamically adjust the two sensitive parameters of the …

Water distribution systems (WDSs) are major infrastructure, and it needs to consider
economic, hydraulic stability, and water quality safety to optimal design and operation of …

Evolutionary computation (EC) algorithms have been successfully applied to the small-scale
water distribution network (WDN) optimization problem. However, due to the city expansion …

Recently, many computational intelligence algorithms have been proposed to address
software remodularization problem. Unfortunately, it has been observed that the …

Nowadays, several new metaheuristic methods have been developed by imitating a process
in life. These algorithms may be practically effective on optimization of engineering problem …

In this paper, we propose an advanced parameter-setting-free (PSF) scheme to solve the
problem of setting the parameters for the harmony search (HS) algorithm. The use of the …

Pesticides are widely used in homes, industries and agricultural sector, and can travel
through water and the air to pollute places far from their point source. Pesticides can find …