Optimization is an act of decision-making for reaching a point in which the overall behaviour of the considered system is acceptable by the experts. In this paper, the optimum design of truss structures is considered utilizing the Material Generation Algorithm (MGA) as one of the recently...

In this paper, optimum design of building structures is conducted by metaheuristic algorithms due to the shortcomings of the conventional design methods in providing economical designs. The Harmony Search (HS) is utilized as the main algorithm which was developed based on the musical process of...