"This book contains the latest research developments in manufacturing technology and its optimization, and demonstrates the fundamentals of new computational approaches and the range of their potential application"--Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1 Application of the Laplace transform in problems of studying -- the dynamic properties of a material system and in engineering -- technologies -- -- Lubov Mironova and Leonid Kondratenko -- -- Chapter 2 Fourier series and its applications in engineering -- -- Smita Sonker and Alka...

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Authors; Section I: Introduction to Heuristic Optimization; Chapter 1 Optimization Using Heuristic Search: An Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Optimization Problem; 1.2.1 Local Versus Global Optima; 1.3 Categorization of...