David Greiner & Blas Galván 
Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control in Engineering and Sciences [PDF ebook] 

Preface.- Part 1: Theoretical and Numerical Methods and Tools for Optimization.- 1.1 Theoretical Methods and Tools.- 1.1.1 Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms in Real-World Applications: Some Recent Results and Current Challenges, by Carlos A. Coello Coello.- 1.1.2 Hybrid Optimization Algorithms and Hybrid Response Surfaces, by George S. Dulikravich and Marcelo J. Colaco.- 1.1.3 A genetic algorithm for a sensor device location problem, by Egidio D’Amato, Elia Daniele and Lina Mallozzi.- 1.1.4 The Role of Artificial Neural Networks in Evolutionary Optimization: A Review, by Mustapha Maarouf, Adriel Sosa, Blas Galván, David Greiner, Gabriel Winter, Máximo Mendez and Ricardo Aguasca.- 1.1.5 Reliability-based Design Optimization with the Generalized Inverse Distribution Function, by Domenico Quagliarella, Giovanni Petrone and Gianluca Iaccarino.- 1.2 Numerical Methods and Tools.- 1.2.1 On the choice of surrogates for multilevel aircraft performance models, by Manon Bondouy, Sophie Jan, Serge Laporte and Christian Bes.- 1.2.2 Multi-objective design optimization using high-order statistics for CFD applications, by Pietro M. Congedo, Gianluca Geraci, Remi Abgrall and Gianluca Iaccarino.- 1.2.3 Extension of the One-Shot Method for Optimal Control with Unsteady PDEs, by Stefanie Gunther, Nicolas R. Gauger and Qiqi Wang.- 1.2.4 Adaptive Aerodynamic Design Optimization for Navier-Stokes using Shape Derivatives with Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, by Lena Kaland, Matthias Sonntag and Nicolas R. Gauger.- 1.2.5 Optimal Flow Control and Topology Optimization Using the Continuous Adjoint Method in Unsteady Flows, by Ioannis S. Kavvadias, George K. Karpouzas, Evangelos M. Paoutsis-Kiachagias, Dimitris I. Papadimitrou and Kyriakos C. Giannakoglou.- Part 2: Engineering Design and Societal Applications.- 2.1 Turbomachinery.- 2.1.1 Design optimization of the Primary Pump of a Nuclear Reactor, by Tom Verstraete and Lasse Mueller.- 2.1.2 Direct 3DAerodynamic Optimization of Turbine Blades with GPU-accelerated CFD, by Philipp Amtsfeld, Dieter Bestle and Marcus Meyer.- 2.1.3 Evaluation of Surrogate Modelling Methods for Turbo-Machinery Component Design Optimization, by Gianluca Badjan, Carlo Poloni, Andrew Pike and Nadir Ince.- 2.1.4 Robust Aerodynamic Design Optimization of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Rotors, by Marco Caboni, Edmondo Minisci and Michele Sergio Campobaso.- 2.1.5 Horizontal axis hydroturbine shroud airfoil optimization, by Elia Daniele, Elios Ferrauto and Domenico P. Coiro.- 2.1.6 Parametric Blending and FE-Optimization of a Compressor Blisk Test Case, by Kai Karger and Dieter Bestle.- 2.1.7 Modular Automated Aerodynamic Compressor Design Process, by Fiete Poehlmann, Dieter Bestle, Peter Flassig and Michèl Hinz.- 2.1.8 Design-Optimization of a Compressor Blading on a GPU Cluster, by Konstantinos T. Tsiakas, Xenofon S. Trompoukis, Varvara G. Asouti and Kyriakos C. Giannakoglou.- 2.2 Structures, Materials and Civil Engineering.- 2.2.1 Immune and Swarm Optimization of Structures, by Tadeusz Burczyński, Arkadiusz Poteralski and Miroslaw Szczepanik.- 2.2.2 Investigation of three genotypes for mixed variable evolutionary optimization, by Rajan Filomeno Coelho, Manyu Xiao, Aurore Guglielmetti, Manuel Herrera and Weihong Zhang.- 2.2.3 A Study of Nash-Evolutionary Algorithms for Reconstruction Inverse Problems in Structural Engineering, by David Greiner, Jacques Périaux, José María Emperador, Blas Galván and Gabriel Winter.- 2.2.4 A comparative study on design optimization of polygonal and Bézier curve-shaped thin noise barriers using dual BEMformulation, by Rayco Toledo, Juan J. Aznárez, Orlando Maeso and David Greiner.- 2.2.5 A Discrete Adjoint Approach For Trailing-Edge Noise Minimization using Porous Material, by Beckett Y. Zhou, Nicolas R. Gauger, Seong R. Koh and Wolfgang Schröder.- 2.3 Aeronautics and Astronautics.- 2.3.1 Conceptual Design of Single-Stage Launch Vehicle with Hybrid Rocket Engine Using Design Informatics, by Kazuhisa Chiba, Masahiro Kanazaki, Koki Kitagawa and Toru Shimada.- 2.3.2 Robust optimization of a helicopter rotor airfoil using multifidelity approach, by Francesca Fusi, Pietro Marco Congedo, Alberto Guardone and Giuseppe Quaranta.- 2.3.3 Computational results for flight test points distribution in the flight envelope, by Lina Mallozzi, Pierluigi De Paolis, Gabriele Di Francesco and Alessandro D’Argenio.- 2.3.4 Optimal Separation Control on the Flap of a 2D High-Lift Configuration, by Anil Nemili, Emre Ozkaya, Nicolas Gauger, Felix Kramer and Frank Thiele.- 2.4 Societal Applications.- 2.4.1 New Challenges and opportunities in reliability and risk based optimization, by Sebastián Martorell, Maryory Villamizar, Isabel Martón, Ana Sánchez and Sofía Carlos.- 2.4.2 Bi-objective Discrete PSO for Service-oriented VRPTW, by Julio Brito, Airam Expósito and José A. Moreno-Pérez.- 2.4.3 An approach for the evaluation of risk impact of changes addressing uncertainties in a Surveillance Requirement optimization context, by Sebastián Martorell, Maryory Villamizar, Isabel Martón, Carmen Armero and Ana Sánchez.- 2.4.4 Scalable Deployment of Efficient Transportation Optimization for SMEs and Public Sector, by Pekka Neittanmäki and Tuukka Puranen.- 2.5 Electrical and Electronical Applications.- 2.5.1 Estimation of the Electricity Demand of La Palma Island (Spain), by Begoña González, Antonio Pulido, Miguel Martínez and Gabriel Winter.- 2.5.2 Optimization of the Dimensionless Model of an Electrostatic Microswitch Based on AMGA Algorithm, by Jorge Santana-Cabrera, José Miguel Monzón-Verona, Francisco Jorge Santana-Martín, Santiago García-Alonso and Juan Antonio Montiel-Nelson.- 2.5.3 Generation of New Detection Codes for GPS Satellites Using NSGA-II, by Javier Sosa, Tomás Bautista, Daniel Alcaraz, Santiago García-Alonso and Juan A. Montiel-Nelson.- Author Index .