A bayesian approach to reliability-based optimization with incomplete information

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gunawan, Subroto ^a   Papalambros, Panos Y ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Incomplete information; Reliability based optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; RELIABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; RELIABILITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33751331947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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