Structural optimization using evolution strategies and neural networks (Q1971478)

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    Structural optimization using evolution strategies and neural networks (English)
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    22 July 2001
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    The authors attack structural optimization problems by means of a combination of evolution strategies (ES) and artificial neural networks (ANN). Since the computation of objective and constraint functions of real world problems may be time-consuming, these functions are simulated by means of an ANN. The latter is trained using specified data and a ``feedforward error back propagation'' training procedure. The versions of ES proposed by \textit{H.-P. Schwefel} [Numerische Optimierung von Computer-Modellen mittels der Evolutionsstrategie. Mit einer vergleichenden Einführung in die Hill-Climbing- und Zufallsstrategie. Interdisciplinar Systems Research. 26. Basel-Stuttgart: Birkhäuser Verlag (1977; Zbl 0347.65035)] are applied. The authors give an extensive introduction into ES and AN, and present several examples of application of the described method.
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    optimal design
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    objective function
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    feedforward error back propagation
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    structural optimization
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    evolution strategies
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    artificial neural networks
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    constraint functions
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    training procedure
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