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Hadi Bayzidi, Siamak Talatahari, Meysam Saraee, Charles-Philippe Lamarche
'Charles-Philippe Lamarche'] In this paper, a new metaheuristic optimization algorithm, called social network search (SNS), is employed for solving mixed continuous/discrete engineering optimization problems. The SNS algorithm mimics the social network user's efforts to gain more popularity by modeling the decision…
Junhao Wei, Yanzhao Gu, Baili Lu, Ngai Cheong + 1 more
Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is a biologically inspired metaheuristic algorithm with a simple structure and ease of implementation. However, WOA suffers from issues such as slow convergence speed, low convergence accuracy, reduced population diversity in the later stages of iteration, and an imbalance between…
Sahar Hassani, Ulrike Dackermann, Paulo Antunes
In recent decades, structural health monitoring (SHM) has gained increased importance for ensuring the sustainability and serviceability of large and complex structures. To design an SHM system that delivers optimal monitoring outcomes, engineers must make decisions on numerous system specifications, including the…
Florian Felten, Gabriel Apaza, Gerhard Bräunlich, Cashen Diniz + 8 more
Engineering design optimization seeks to automatically determine the shapes, topologies, or parameters of components that optimize performance under given conditions. This process often depends on physics-based simulations, which are difficult to install, computationally expensive, and require domain-specific…
Sunde Wang, Beilei Yin, Pu Wang, Zihao Cheng + 1 more
To address the inherent limitations of the traditional Animated Oat Optimization Algorithm (AOO), including poor uniformity of initial random population distribution and insufficient dynamic balance between global exploration and local exploitation, this paper proposes an Enhanced Animated Oat Optimization Algorithm…
Bach Do, Ruda Zhang
Resided at the intersection of multi-fidelity optimization (MFO) and Bayesian optimization (BO), MF BO has found a niche in solving expensive engineering design optimization problems, thanks to its advantages in incorporating physical and mathematical understandings of the problems, saving resources, addressing…
Mojtaba Ghasemi, Abolfazl Rahimnejad, Ebrahim Akbari, Ravipudi Venkata Rao + 4 more
'Ravipudi Venkata Rao' 'Pavel Trojovský' 'Eva Trojovská' 'Stephen Andrew Gadsden' 'Yilun Shang'] Many important engineering optimization problems require a strong and simple optimization algorithm to achieve the best solutions. In 2020, Rao introduced three non-parametric algorithms, known as Rao algorithms, which have…
Junhao Wei, Wenxuan Zhu, Qingyang Xu, Yanxiao Li + 10 more
Metaheuristic algorithms have been widely applied to complex optimization problems due to their independence from gradient information, strong global search capability, and robust performance. The Sparrow Search Algorithm (SSA), characterized by its simple structure and ease of implementation, nevertheless suffers from…
Rosen Ting-Ying Yu, Cyril Picard, Faez Ahmed
Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a foundational strategy in engineering design optimization for efficiently handling black-box functions with many constraints and expensive evaluations. This paper introduces a novel constraint-handling framework for Bayesian Optimization (BO) using Prior-data Fitted Networks (PFNs), a…
Richa Verma, Dinesh Kumar, Kazuma Kobayashi, Syed Bahauddin Alam
Robust optimization is a method for optimization under uncertainties in engineering systems and designs for applications ranging from aeronautics to nuclear. In a robust design process, parameter variability (or uncertainty) is incorporated into the engineering systems' optimization process to assure the systems'…
Ricardo Andrade, Mahdi Doostmohammadi, João L. Santos, Marie-France Sagot + 2 more
In this paper, we explore the concept of multi-objective optimization in the field of metabolic engineering when both continuous and integer decision variables are involved in the model. In particular, we propose a multi-objective model that may be used to suggest reaction deletions that maximize and/or minimize…
Sergio Garcia, Cong Trinh
A large space of chemicals with broad industrial and consumer applications could be synthesized by engineered microbial biocatalysts. However, the current strain optimization process is prohibitively laborious and costly to produce one target chemical and often requires new engineering efforts to produce new molecules.…
Nermina Zaimović-Uzunović, Samir Lemeš, Damir Ćurić, Alan Topčić
This paper deals with combination of two modern engineering methods in order to optimise the shape of a representative casting product. The product being analysed is a sling, which is used to attach pulling rope in timber transportation. The first step was 3D modelling and static stress/strain analysis using CAD/CAE…
Sergio Garcia, Cong T. Trinh
Living cells optimize their fitness against constantly changing environments to survive. Goal attainment optimization is a mathematical framework to describe the simultaneous optimization of multiple conflicting objectives that must all reach a performance above a threshold or goal. In this study, we applied goal…
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This article presents an overview about the state of the art in the development of structured packings for distillation applications. The focus is on highlighting different approaches including heuristic development cycles, the development of new packing structures, 3D-printing as tool for manufacturing, and…
Guenther Ruhe
Empirical software engineering is concerned with the design and analysis of empirical studies that include software products, processes, and resources. Optimization is a form of data analytics in support of human decision-making. Optimization methods are aimed to find best decision alternatives. Empirical studies serve…
Babita K. Verma, Ahmad A. Mannan, Fuzhong Zhang, Diego A. Oyarzún
Recent progress in synthetic biology allows the construction of dynamic control circuits for metabolic engineering. This technology promises to overcome many challenges encountered in traditional pathway engineering, thanks to their ability to self-regulate gene expression in response to bioreactor perturbations. The…
Andre KY Low, Flore Mekki-Berrada, Aleksandr Ostudin, Jiaxun Xie + 7 more
The development of automated high-throughput experimental platforms has enabled fast sampling of high-dimensional decision spaces. To reach target properties efficiently, these platforms are increasingly paired with intelligent experimental design. When solving optimization problems, Bayesian-based optimizers are often…
Riley Hickman, Priyansh Parakh, Austin Cheng, Qianxiang Ai + 3 more
Experiment planning algorithms are a required component of autonomous platforms for scientific discovery. Selecting a suitable optimization algorithm for a novel application is an important yet difficult choice a researcher has to make based on past empirical performance on similar tasks. To facilitate the evaluation…
Olga Speck, Thomas Speck, Sabine Baur, Michael Herdy + 3 more
'Laith Abualigah' 'Xuewen Xia'] With a focus on education and teaching, we provide general background information on bioinspired optimization methods by comparing the concept of optimization and the search for an optimum in engineering and biology. We introduce both the principles of Darwinian evolution and the basic…
Yannick Ureel, Maarten R. Dobbelaere, Yi Ouyang, Kevin De Ras + 3 more
By combining machine learning with design of experiments, so-called active machine learning, more efficient and cheaper research can be conducted. Machine learning algorithms are more flexible, and are better at investigating the processes spanning all length scales of chemical engineering. While the active machine…
Ion Gabriel Ion, Zeger Bontinck, Dimitrios Loukrezis, Ulrich Römer + 4 more
'Oliver Lass' 'Stefan Ulbrich' 'Sebastian Schöps' 'Herbert De Gersem'] Abstract In this paper, gradient-based optimization methods are combined with finite-element modeling for improving electric devices. Geometric design parameters are considered by affine decomposition of the geometry or by the design element…
Charlotte Merzbacher, Oisin Mac Aodha, Diego A. Oyarzún
Recent advances in synthetic biology have enabled the construction of molecular circuits that operate across multiple scales of cellular organization, such as gene regulation, signalling pathways and cellular metabolism. Computational optimization can effectively aid the design process, but current methods are…
Leonardo Giannantoni, Roberta Bardini, Stefano Di Carlo
Biofabrication processes are complex and often unsatisfactory. Trial-and-error methods are costly and yield only incremental innovation, starting from sub-optimal and poorly represented existing processes. Although computational techniques might support efficient process design to find optimal process configurations…
Riley Hickman, Matteo Aldeghi, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Model-based optimization strategies, such as Bayesian optimization (BO), have been deployed across the natural sciences in design and discovery campaigns due to their sample efficiency and flexibility. The combination of such strategies with automated laboratory equipment and/or high-performance computing in a…
Katie Fan
Metabolic engineering in plants has emerged as a powerful approach to address global challenges in agriculture, nutrition, and sustainability. This comprehensive review explores cutting-edge strategies for manipulating primary and secondary metabolic pathways in plants, utilizing advanced genetic modification tools to…
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Experimental design plays an important role in efficiently acquiring informative data for system characterization and deriving robust conclusions under resource limitations. Recent advancements in high-throughput experimentation coupled with machine learning have notably improved experimental procedures. While Bayesian…