Unveiling optimal operating conditions for an epoxy polymerization process using multi-objective evolutionary computation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3103, Issue , 2004, Pages 920-931

  Deb, Kalyanmoy ^a   Mitra, Kishalay ^b   Dewri, Rinku ^c   Majumdar, Saptarshi ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d TATA RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical engineering process optimization; Genetic algorithms; Multi objective optimization; Pareto optimal solutions; Real world optimization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; POLYMERIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROCESS; ELITIST NON-DOMINATED SORTING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; MULTI-OBJECTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING; NUMBER AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTIMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; PARETO OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; REAL-WORLD OPTIMIZATION;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33747851726     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24855-2_105     Document Type: Article

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