Advances of Soft Computing in Engineering
Invited Lecturers
- Tadeusz Burczynski (Silesian Univer. of Technology, Gliwice, Poland)
6 lectures on:
Evolutionary and immune computations in optimal design and inverse problems, related to size, shape, topology and material optimization, defect identification of structures under static and dynamic loads.- Jamshid Ghaboussi (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
6 lectures on:
Advances in neural network applications in mechanics of structures and materials, biologically inspired problem solving strategies in inverse problems in engineering mechanics, neural network supported material identification related to monitoring of strutural responses, discussion of fundamentals and applications.- John Miles (Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain)
6 lectures on:
Basics of stochastic search algorithms, genetic algorithms and genetic programming, representa-tions for spatial reasoning, search vs. optimization, applications of stochastic search in structural mechanics and constructional design.- Manolis Papadrakakis (National Tech. University, Athens, Greece)
5 lectured on:
Recent developments in soft stochastic computations and earthquake engineering, performance- based earthquake-resistance design optimization, probabilistic safety analysis using FEM, neural networks and evolutionary algorithms for structural optimisation.- Vassili V. Toropov (University of Leeds, Leeds, W. Yorkshire, Great Britain)
6 lectures on:
Applications of GA and GP to industrial design optimization and inverse problems, weight and crash-worthiness optimization of racing cars and aerospace components, cost and damage identification in civil engineering structures.- Zenon Waszczyszyn (Technical Univ. of Cracow, Cracow, Poland)
6 lectures on:
Advances in neural networks and their civil engineering applications, Kalman filtering and Bayesian techniques for training and design of neural networks, modifications of neuro-fuzzy simulation and identification in structural engineering.