A Revised Simplex Search Procedure for Stochastic Simulation Response Surface Optimization

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 272-283

  Humphrey, David G ^a   Wilson, James R ^b  

^a Operations Research Department   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Simplex search procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013165096     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.12.4.272.11879     Document Type: Article

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