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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Applications of Metaheuristics in Process Engineering</span></strong><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt'>Jayaraman Valadi and</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt'>Patrick Siarry (Eds)</span></strong><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SPRINGER</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISBN 978-3-319-06508-3.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>August 2014.</span><span lang=EN-US><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>444</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>pp.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hardcover</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=detailsrub style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-319-06508-3">http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-319-06508-3</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Metaheuristics exhibit desirable properties like simplicity, easy parallelizability, and ready applicability to different types of optimization problems, such as <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>real parameter optimization, combinatorial optimization, and mixed integer optimization. They are thus beginning to play a key role in different industrially <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>important process engineering applications, among them the synthesis of heat and mass exchange equipment, synthesis of distillation columns, and static <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and dynamic optimization of chemical reactors and bioreactors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This book discusses cutting-edge research techniques in related computational intelligence domains and their applications in real-world process engineering. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It will be of interest to industrial practitioners and research academics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Written for:</span></strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Engineers, researchers and graduate students in chemical process engineering and fields related to metaheuristics</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Keywords:</span></strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chemical process engineering - Metaheuristics - Optimization - Computational intelligence - Evolutionary algorithms.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=detailsrub0><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>