Quality Tolerancing and Conjugate Duality

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 185-200

  Jefferson, T R ^a   Scott, C H ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate duality; Convexity; Cost tolerance function; Quality; Tolerance allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035561497     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013309716875     Document Type: Article

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