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Bozorg-Haddad et al. (2016) studied the performance of the gravity search algorithm (GSA) for optimizing (to optimize) a single- and multi-reservoir system.

Which one should I use? "for optimizing" or "to optimize"? Why?

Thanks a million

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to/for
Bozorg-Haddad et al. (2016) studied the performance of the gravity search algorithm (GSA) for optimizing (to optimize) a single- and multi-reservoir system.

Which one should I use? "for optimizing" or "to optimize"? Why?

Thanks a million

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I assume they were using the GSA to optimise single and multi-reservior systems?

In this case "for optimising" is good, and clearly states that the GSA was used for optimisation (British spelling) :)

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Thank you very much, Andrew and Hasmik. I really appreciate your help.

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“For optimizing” is better for this particular sentence, however saying “to optimize” is not wrong too. When you use “for optimizing” you describe the GSA’s purpose, and with “to optimize” to describe Bozorg-Haddad’s purpose.

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for optimizing.  The algorithm is not probably not limited to the optimisation of a reservoir system, and what you studied is its particular application to this task - that is, how well did it work *for* the job.

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