Robust design using a hybrid-cellular-evolutionary and interval-arithmetic approach: A reliability application

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-159

  Rocco, Claudio M ^a   Moreno, José Alí ^a   Carrasquero, Néstor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Evolutionary strategy; Global optimisation; Interval arithmetic; Modelling and simulation; Robust design; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037302609     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00226-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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