Soft computing technologies in nuclear engineering applications

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-75

  Uhrig, Robert E ^a,b   Tsoukalas, Lefteri H ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Fuzzy logic; Genetic algorithms; Neural networks; Nuclear power; Soft computing; System modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001818505     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0149-1970(97)00109-1     Document Type: Article

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