Explanation of goal softening in ordinal optimization

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-99

  Lee, Loo Hay ^a   Lau, Tak Wing Edward ^b   Ho, Yu Chi ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment probability; Order statistics; Selection algorithms; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALIGNMENT PROBABILITY; GOAL SOFTENING; ORDINAL OPTIMIZATION;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032653557     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.739080     Document Type: Article

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