• Title of article

    APPLICATION OF CHARGED SYSTEM SEARCH ALGORITHM TO WATER DISTRUBITION NETWORKS OPTIMIZATION

  • Author/Authors

    Sheikholeslami, R. amirkabir university of technology - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, تهران, ايران , Kaveh, A. iran university of science and technology - Centre of Excellence for Fundamental Studies in Structural Engineering, تهران, ايران , Tahershamsi, A. amirkabir university of technology - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, تهران, ايران , Talatahari, S. university of tabriz - Department of Civil Engineering, تبريز, ايران

  • From page
    41
  • To page
    58
  • Abstract
    A charged system search algorithm (CSS) is applied to the optimal cost design of water distribution networks. This algorithm is inspired by the Coulomb and Gauss’s laws of electrostatics in physics. The CSS utilizes a number of charged particles which influence each other based on their fitness values and their separation distances considering the governing law of Coulomb. The well-known benchmark instances, Hanoi network, double Hanoi network, and New York City tunnel problem, are utilized as the case studies to evaluate the optimization performance of CSS. Comparison of the results of the CSS with some other meta-heuristic algorithms indicates the performance of the new algorithm.
  • Keywords
    Optimal cost design , water distribution networks , charged system search algorithm
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Optimization in Civil Engineering
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Optimization in Civil Engineering
  • Record number

    2566599