An improved particle swarm optimization for optimal power flow / Dieu Ngoc Vo, Peter Schegner -- The use of soft computing for optimization in business, economics, and finance / Petr Dostál -- Hybrid linear search, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing for fuzzy non-linear industrial...

"This book provides insight on the latest advances and analysis of technologies in metaheuristics computing, offering widespread coverage on topics such as genetic algorithms, differential evolution, and ant colony optimization"--Provided by publisher.

Scatter search and path relinking: a tutorial on the linear arrangement problem / Rafael Martí ... [et al.] -- A complementary cyber swarm algorithm / Peng-Yeng Yin ... [et al.] -- Path relinking scheme for the max-cut problem within global equilibrium search / Volodymyr P. Shylo, Oleg V. Shylo...

This paper empirically investigates the stock price dynamics implied by the valuation model proposed by Schwartz and Moon (2001) for growth companies. We test the hypothesis that the inherent stochastic process for the firm equity value better describes the actual dynamics than standard...

Support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully employed to solve non-linear regression and time series problems. However, SVMs have rarely been applied to forecasting software reliability. This investigation elucidates the feasibility of the use of SVMs to forecast software reliability....

Praise for the First Edition This book is refreshing to read since it takes an important topic... and presents it in a clear and concise manner by using examples that include visual presentations of the problem, solution methods, and results along with an explanation of the mathematical and...