Activity analysis: Simplifying optimal design problems through qualitative partitioning

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-137

  Williams, Brian C ^a   Cagan, Jonathan ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Karush Kuhn Tucker conditions; Qualitative Karush Kuhn Tucker conditions; Symbolic optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

ACTIVITY ANALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL SATISFYING SEARCH; GRADIENT BASED OPTIMIZATION; KARUSH-KUHN TUCKER CONDITIONS; MONOTONICITY ANALYSIS; SYMBOLIC OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0030403946     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052159608941402     Document Type: Article

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