Agent-based optimization for product family design

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 147-156

  Rai, Rahul ^a   Allada, Venkat ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based optimization; Product family; Quality loss function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646581343     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-006-7378-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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