A min-max method with adaptive weightings for uniformly spaced Pareto optimum points

Computers and Structures

Volumn 84, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 1760-1769

  Zhang, W H ^a   Gao, T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Min max method; Multicriteria optimization; Pareto optimum

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MIN-MAX METHOD; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; PARETO OPTIMUM;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33748704256     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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