Document Type : Original Research Paper

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Civil Engineering Department, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In the present paper, using evolutionary strategy, optimization of problems with continuous variables is performed. Evolutionary strategy is one of the meta-exploration methods that is basically provided for problems with continuous variables and can adjust its parameters during the optimization process. In order to evaluate, optimization of known functions is performed using evolutionary strategy and finally the results are presented and the effect of different parameters on the optimization process is presented by presenting tables and graphs. And the results obtained from the presented method are compared with the results obtained from other methods.

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