A novel means of applying neural networks to optimize the multiresponse problem

Quality Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-18

  Tong, Lee Ing ^a   Hsieh, Kun Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Backpropagation; Experimental design; Multiresponse; Optimization; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644241792     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110108918619     Document Type: Article

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