Differential Evolution: Fundamentals and Applications in Electrical EngineeringISBN: 978-0-470-82392-7
Hardcover
352 pages
September 2009, Wiley-IEEE Press
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Differential evolution is a very simple but very powerful
stochastic optimizer. Since its inception, it has proved very
efficient and robust in function optimization and has been applied
to solve problems in many scientific and engineering fields. In
Differential Evolution , Dr. Qing begins with an overview of
optimization, followed by a state-of-the-art review of differential
evolution, including its fundamentals and up-to-date advances. He
goes on to explore the relationship between differential evolution
strategies, intrinsic control parameters, non-intrinsic control
parameters, and problem features through a parametric study.
Findings and recommendations on the selection of strategies and
intrinsic control parameter values are presented. Lastly, after an
introductory review of reported applications in electrical and
electronic engineering fields, different research groups
demonstrate how the methods can be applied to such areas as:
multicast routing, multisite mapping in grid environments, antenna
arrays, analog electric circuit sizing, electricity markets,
stochastic tracking in video sequences, and color quantization.
- Contains a systematic and comprehensive overview of differential evolution
- Reviews the latest differential evolution research
- Describes a comprehensive parametric study conducted over a large test bed
- Shows how methods can be practically applied to
- mobile communications
- grid computing
- circuits
- image processing
- power engineering
- Sample applications demonstrated by research groups in the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Turkey, China, and Eastern Europe
- Provides access to companion website with code examples for download
Differential Evolution is ideal for application engineers, who can use the methods described to solve specific engineering problems. It is also a valuable reference for post-graduates and researchers working in evolutionary computation, design optimization and artificial intelligence. Researchers in the optimization field or engineers and managers involved in operations research will also find the book a helpful introduction to the topic.