**Meet the editor**

Pakize Erdoğmuş was born in Erzurum, Turkey, in 1972. She received her BSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Kocaeli Engineering Faculty, in 1993. She also received her MSc degree in Computer Science and her PhD degree in Numerical Methods. She studied continuous optimization problems, linear programming and revised

simplex method, for her master of thesis and course scheduling "Discrete Optimization Problem" for her PhD.

From 2003 to 2010, she was an Assistant Professor in Duzce University, Faculty of Technical Education. Since 2010, she has been working in Department of Computer Engineering of Duzce University, Faculty of Engineering. She is the author of more than 20 articles. Her research interests are nature-inspired optimization algorithms, signal and image processing.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Optimization 1** Pakize Erdogmus

**Aging Model 9**

**Operation Problems 25** Mostafa Kheshti and Lei Ding

Arunachalam Sundaram

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Swarm Intelligence and Particle Swarm**

Chapter 2 **Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with a Bio-Inspired**

Chapter 3 **Particle Swarm Optimization Solution for Power System**

Chapter 4 **Stochastic Greedy-Based Particle Swarm Optimization for**

Chapter 5 **Performance Comparison of PSO and Its New Variants in the**

Chapter 6 **Solution of Combined Economic Emission Dispatch Problem**

Subhrapratim Nath, Jamuna Kanta Sing and Subir Kumar Sarkar

**with Valve-Point Effect Using Hybrid NSGA II-MOPSO 81**

**Workflow Application in Grid 41** Ruey-Maw Chen and Yin-Mou Shen

**Context of VLSI Global Routing 61**

Arana-Daniel, Carlos Lopez-Franco and Alma Y. Alanis

Eduardo Rangel-Carrillo, Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas, Nancy
