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Application Of Computational Intelligence To Explore And Analyze System Architecture And Design Alternatives, Gene Lesinski
Application Of Computational Intelligence To Explore And Analyze System Architecture And Design Alternatives, Gene Lesinski
Doctoral Dissertations
"Systems Engineering involves the development or improvement of a system or process from effective need to a final value-added solution. Rapid advances in technology have led to development of sophisticated and complex sensor-enabled, remote, and highly networked cyber-technical systems. These complex modern systems present several challenges for systems engineers including: increased complexity associated with integration and emergent behavior, multiple and competing design metrics, and an expansive design parameter solution space. This research extends the existing knowledge base on multi-objective system design through the creation of a framework to explore and analyze system design alternatives employing computational intelligence. The first research …
The Tabu Ant Colony Optimizer And Its Application In An Energy Market, David Donald Haynes
The Tabu Ant Colony Optimizer And Its Application In An Energy Market, David Donald Haynes
Doctoral Dissertations
"A new ant colony optimizer, the 'tabu ant colony optimizer' (TabuACO) is introduced, tested, and applied to a contemporary problem. The TabuACO uses both attractive and repulsive pheromones to speed convergence to a solution. The dual pheromone TabuACO is benchmarked against several other solvers using the traveling salesman problem (TSP), the quadratic assignment problem (QAP), and the Steiner tree problem. In tree-shaped puzzles, the dual pheromone TabuACO was able to demonstrate a significant improvement in performance over a conventional ACO. As the amount of connectedness in the network increased, the dual pheromone TabuACO offered less improvement in performance over the …