Download or read book Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology written by Barry H. V. Topping and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Structures written by Barry H. V. Topping and published by Civil Comp Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the extended abstracts of the contributed papers that were presented at the Seventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 7-9 September 2004. The full length papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM.

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Download or read book Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures written by Javier Esparza and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FOSSACS 2017, which took place in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2017, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017. The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: coherence spaces and higher-order computation; algebra and coalgebra; games and automata; automata, logic and formal languages; proof theory; probability; concurrency; lambda calculus and constructive proof; and semantics and category theory.

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology written by B. H. V. Topping and published by Civil Comp Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the extended abstracts of the contributed papers that were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 4-6 September 2002. The full length papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM.

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Download or read book Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Harmony Search Soft Computing and Applications written by Joong Hoon Kim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers different aspects of real-world applications of optimization algorithms. It provides insights from the Seventh International Conference on Harmony Search, Soft Computing and Applications held at Virtual Conference, Seoul, South Korea, in February 2022. Harmony search (HS) is one of the most popular metaheuristic algorithms, developed in 2001 by Prof. Joong Hoon Kim and Prof. Zong Woo Geem, that mimics the improvisation process of jazz musicians to seek the best harmony. The book consists of research articles on novel and newly proposed optimization algorithms; the theoretical study of nature-inspired optimization algorithms; numerically established results of nature-inspired optimization algorithms; and real-world applications of optimization algorithms and synthetic benchmarking of optimization algorithms.

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