Metaheuristic Methods for Structural Optimization

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, of summaries of the existing studies furthers our understanding of the heuristic and metaheuristic optimization methods for structural engineering domain problems. It brings out nature inspired metaheuristic optimization methods such as Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, Ant Colony Optimization, Cohort Intelligence, Firefly Algorithm, Differential Evolution, Bee Colony, Grey Wolf Optimizer, League Championship Algorithm, Harmony Search Algorithm, Water Cycle Algorithm, Neural Network Algorithm, and its different variations that have been widely used to solve structural engineering problems.