Work Task Order Optimization in Aircraft Hangar Maintenance: A Constraint-Based Heuristic Programming Approach

Scheduled aircraft maintenance consists of a set of work tasks to be executed. This thesis focuses on improving the order in which these work tasks are executed. Because finding an optimum for these kind of problems is computationally intensive, the chosen approach is of heuristic nature, which is a practical method resulting in close-to-optimal...

2018 Competition on operational planning of sustainable power systems: Testsbeds and results

This paper concerns with the development of two new testbeds, the associated datasets, and the analysis of the results obtained by applying different heuristic optimization algorithms that participated in the 2018 panel and competition on”Emerging heuristic optimization algorithms for operational planning of sustainable electrical power...

Application of Evolutionary Structural Optimization to Reinforced Concrete Structures

The present thesis has the objective to create a procedure for the automatic preliminary design of reinforced concrete structures, based on the Evolutionary Structural Optimization method (ESO). The developed algorithm performs heuristic topology optimization based on multiple criteria, in subsequent optimization cycles executed in series. In...