Incorporating robustness into Genetic Algorithm search of stochastic simulation outputs

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 201-223

  Al Aomar, Raid ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation; Genetic Algorithm; Robust design; Taguchi methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT SIMULATION; ROBUST DESIGN; TAGUCHI METHOD;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33244484571     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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