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
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.
