A soft approach for hard continuous optimization

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-29

  Xu, Chunhui ^a   Ng, Peggy ^b  

^a CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optimal solution; Optimization; Sampling; Soft approach

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING;

OPTIMAL SOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; SOFT APPROACH;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33646120321     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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