Introduction The original Ant System (AS) was proposed by Marco Dorigo in 1990. AS has shown its efficiency and simplified concept in...

Retaining walls are fundamental in geotechnical and structural engineering, yet their design often involves conservative assumptions that increase material costs and construction time. As recently studied by Uray et. al (2021), our new AI-driven cantilever retaining wall optimizer transforms this process by combining modern metaheuristic optimization with established soil mechanics and structural principles. What Makes It Different? Instead of relying on trial-and-error or fi

Metaheuristic algorithms often look alike at first glance. They all work with a “population” of solutions, evolve iteratively, and are...

JAYA algorithm was invented by RV Rao (2016) for solving continuous problems. In this blog we try to apply JAYA to knapsack problem which...

In this post, I introduce a new way of thinking about Swarm Intelligence (SI) algorithms through the analogy of investors and retailers...

The Bat Algorithm (BA), proposed by Xin-She Yang in 2010, is a swarm intelligence method for global optimization inspired by the...

*Auto Generated by GPT-5 1. Steel and Concrete Frame Design Objectives: Minimize material cost (steel weight, concrete volume). Minimize...

Problem setup We want to design a square footing on soil that satisfies safety and economy. Design variables : B = footing width (m) D =...

Lévy Flight or Lévy Step is commonly used in modern swarm-based algorithms, especially by Prof. Xin-She Yang's algorithms. The Lévy step...

In this blog, we present an example of RC beam section optimization. The optimization problem is formulated as following: Design Vars: b,...

When a musician composes or improvises the music he might choose from 3 strategies: Reuse the line of notes from his memory...

The Jaya algorithm , proposed by Prof. R. Venkata Rao (2016), is a simple, yet effective population-based optimization algorithm . The...

It can confuse when to use allocatable keyword when declaring dynamic arrays. We have two scenarios to declare the array here First...

Explanation of the Code Problem Definition Defines two conflicting objective functions to minimize. Sets variable bounds (-5 to 5) ....

Adisorn Owatsiriwong To fully understand the relationship between the neural network or deep learning and optimization problems, we can...

Adisorn Owatsiriwong Practical Approach: Converting a serial to parallel for loop must ensure each worker (cpu) handles an independent...

Adisorn Owatsiriwong Parallel programming in MATLAB enables us to perform multiple computations simultaneously by dividing tasks into...

Adisorn Owatsiriwong, D.Eng. **Introduction** In many engineering applications, mechanical systems are subjected to dynamic loads that...