This special issue aims to collect high-quality research articles with a solid background in both theoretical and practical aspects of developing and applying state-of-the-art heuristics/metaheuristics to the diverse set of problems in mechanical engineering. Today, computation costs have drastically reduced and a fast pace of development is witnessed in the field of heuristics/metaheuristics, which have come to rescue industries in terms of finding realistic solutions and reducing processing times significantly.
The challenges posed by industrial competitiveness, customer-driven markets, global economies and rapid development in product and process technology could certainly be resolved through the application of artificial intelligence and soft computing. This issue is a step towards integrating computer science, information technology and mechanical engineering to harness the unprecedented benefits of heuristics/metaheuristics.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Application of heuristics/metaheuristics to the following:
- Manufacturing systems
- Manufacturing and machining parameter optimisation
- Production planning and control
- Engineering design
- Supply chain management
- Quality and reliability
- Thermal engineering
- CAD/CAM and robotics
- Multiple objective optimisations through metaheuristics
- Hybridisation of metaheuristics with classical techniques to solve mechanical engineering problems
- Heuristics (ant colony optimisation, artificial immune systems, genetic algorithms, particle swarm intelligence, simulated annealing, tabu search, etc.)
Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 31 March, 2015
Notification to authors: 30 June, 2015
Final versions due: 31 August, 2015
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