The butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) is a recent successful metaheuristic swarm-based
optimization algorithm. The BOA has attracted scholars' attention due to its extraordinary …

Foam concrete, as an inorganic cellular material possessing exceptional thermal insulation
and fire resistance properties, emerges as a promising candidate for thermal insulation. To …

Depending on the increasing raw material costs in the construction area, it is becoming
more and more significant to design the structures using minimum materials. For steel …

The difficulty in computational convergence poses challenges of application for traditional
heuristic optimization algorithms to solve the optimization-based structural identification …

Swarm intelligence optimization algorithms have been widely used in structural identification
due to its powerful search ability, while an unpleasant identification result is regularly …

To solve the optimization-based structural damage identification problem, a novel hybrid
algorithm based on Jaya and differential evolution algorithm (HJDEA) is proposed to detect …

The identification of structural damage with the unavailability of input excitations is highly
desired but challenging since structural dynamic responses are affected by the coupling …

This paper addresses the problem of time difference of arrival (TDOA) based passive target
localizationand proposes an improved chaos-driven hybrid differential evolution (DE) …

Engineering applications of swarm intelligence optimization algorithms have been widely
employed to identify structural systems and damages owing to their merits of simplicity …

This paper considers the problem of finding the position of a passive target using noisy time
difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements, obtained from multiple transmitters and a single …