"This cutting-edge book covers emerging, evolutionary and nature inspired optimization techniques in the field of advanced manufacturing. The complexity of real life advanced manufacturing problems often cannot be solved by traditional engineering or computational methods. Hence, in recent years...

Evolutionary computation in scheduling : a scientometric analysis / Amir H. Gandomi, Ali Emrouznejad, Iman Rahimi -- Role and impacts of ant colony optimization in job shop scheduling problems : a detail analysis / P.Deepalakshmi, K. Shankar -- Advanced ant colony optimization in healthcare...

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Conventional Optimization Techniques -- Evolutionary Computation -- Single Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Constrained Optimization -- Constrained Evolutionary Optimization -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: A Critical Review --...