On the optimum choice of decision variables for equation-oriented global optimization

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4742-4758

  Salcedo, Romualdo L ^a   Lima, Ricardo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

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ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROCESS CONTROL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0033237849     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9901980     Document Type: Article

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