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Ayla Ocak, Gebrail Bekdas, Sinan Melih Nigdeli, Sanghun Kim and Zong Woo Geem
This study focuses on tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) using liquids with different characteristics optimized with the adaptive harmony search algorithm (AHS). TLDs utilize the characteristic features of the liquid to absorb the dynamic forces entering the st...
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Ayla Ocak, Sinan Melih Nigdeli, Gebrail Bekdas, Sanghun Kim and Zong Woo Geem
In this study, the tuned liquid damper (TLD) device was optimized by the harmony search (HS) and adaptive harmony search algorithms (AHS). Using the harmony search algorithm, seismic excitations were directed at single and ten-story structures, and TLD p...
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Yang Zhang, Jiacheng Li and Lei Li
To overcome the shortcomings of the harmony search algorithm, such as its slow convergence rate and poor global search ability, a reward population-based differential genetic harmony search algorithm is proposed. In this algorithm, a population is divide...
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Young Hwan Choi and Joong Hoon Kim
This study compares the performance of self-adaptive optimization approaches in efficient water distribution systems (WDS) design and presents a guide for the selection of the appropriate method employing optimization utilizing the characteristic of each...
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Diamantis Karakatsanis, Thomas Patsialis, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Ioannis Kougias, Maria Margarita Ntona, Nicolaos Theodossiou and Nerantzis Kazakis
The optimization of dam operations to transform them into multi-objective facilities constitutes a challenge for both hydrology, hydrogeology, and hydropower generation. However, the use of the optimal algorithm for such transformation is critically impo...
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Cinthia Peraza, Patricia Ochoa, Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin
The challenges we face in today?s world are increasingly complex, and effectively managing uncertainty when modeling control problems can yield significant benefits. However, the complexity of these models often leads to higher computational costs. There...
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Roberto Rosario Corsini, Antonio Costa, Sergio Fichera and Vincenzo Parrinello
This research deals with the same-day chemotherapy outpatient scheduling problem that is recognized as a leading strategy to pursue the objective of reducing patient waiting time. Inspired by a real-world context and different from the other studies, we ...
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Eren Bas, Erol Egrioglu and Ufuk Yolcu
Exponential smoothing methods are one of the classical time series forecasting methods. It is well known that exponential smoothing methods are powerful forecasting methods. In these methods, exponential smoothing parameters are fixed on time, and they s...
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Zülal Akbay Arama, Aylin Ece Kayabekir, Gebrail Bekdas, Sanghun Kim and Zong Woo Geem
In this paper, the Harmony Search (HS) algorithm is utilized to perform single and multivariate parametric studies to acquire the optimization of both size and cost of reinforced concrete (RC) retaining walls embedded in pure frictional soils. The geotec...
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Sadik Ozgur Degertekin, Mohammad Minooei, Lorenzo Santoro, Bartolomeo Trentadue and Luciano Lamberti
Metaheuristic algorithms currently represent the standard approach to engineering optimization. A very challenging field is large-scale structural optimization, entailing hundreds of design variables and thousands of nonlinear constraints on element stre...
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Yong-Woon Jeong, Seung-Min Park, Zong Woo Geem and Kwee-Bo Sim
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 advanced PSF method solves the problems of the conventional PSF scheme that res...
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Aylin Ece Kayabekir, Gebrail Bekdas, Sinan Melih Nigdeli and Zong Woo Geem
In this study, the music-inspired Harmony Search (HS) algorithm is modified for the optimization of active tuned mass dampers (ATMDs). The modification of HS includes the consideration of the best solution with a defined probability and updating of algor...
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Oguzhan Ceylan, Mustafa Erdem Sezgin, Murat Göl, Maurizio Verga, Riccardo Lazzari, Marcel Pendieu Kwaye and Carlo Sandroni
Microgrids are composed of distributed energy resources (DERs), storage devices, electric vehicles, flexible loads and so on. They may either operate connected to the main electricity grid (on-grid operation) or separated from the grid (islanded operatio...
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Farahanim Misni, Lai Soon Lee and Hsin-Vonn Seow
This paper considers a location-inventory-routing problem (LIRP) that integrates the strategic, tactical, and operational decision planning in supply chain network design. Both defect and non-defect items of returned products are considered in the cost o...
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Celal Cakiroglu, Gebrail Bekdas, Sanghun Kim and Zong Woo Geem
The shear buckling of web plates and lateral?torsional buckling are among the major failure modes of plate girders. The importance of the lateral?torsional buckling capacity of plate girders was further evidenced when several plate girders of a bridge in...
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Mohammad Nasir, Ali Sadollah, Jin Hee Yoon and Zong Woo Geem
Harmony Search (HS) is a music-inspired optimization algorithm for solving complex optimization problems that imitate the musical improvisational process. This paper reviews the potential of applying the HS algorithm in three countries, China, South Kore...
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Yusuf Cengiz Toklu, Gebrail Bekdas and Zong Woo Geem
There are several ways of using three-dimensional printing techniques in the construction industry. One method that seems quite feasible is the concreting of walls and structural components starting at the bottom and progressing up in layers according to...
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Mohammad Lemar Zalmai,Cemil Akcay,Ekrem Manisali
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In construction projects, the relationship between project cost and duration, which is one of the main factors of the project, are considered the parameters decision-makers. When a construction schedule is planned by the planners, additional resources ar...
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Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Fevrier Valdez, Jose Soria, Emanuel Ontiveros-Robles, Cinthia Peraza and Patricia Ochoa
Nowadays, dynamic parameter adaptation has been shown to provide a significant improvement in several metaheuristic optimization methods, and one of the main ways to realize this dynamic adaptation is the implementation of Fuzzy Inference Systems. The ma...
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Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Fevrier Valdez, Jose Soria, Emanuel Ontiveros-Robles, Cinthia Peraza and Patricia Ochoa
Nowadays, dynamic parameter adaptation has been shown to provide a significant improvement in several metaheuristic optimization methods, and one of the main ways to realize this dynamic adaptation is the implementation of Fuzzy Inference Systems. The ma...
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