Economic design of variable sampling intervals EWMA charts with sampling at fixed times using genetic algorithms

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 419-426

  Chou, Chao Yu ^a   Cheng, Jui Chang ^a   Lai, Wei Tseng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Control chart; Economic design; Exponentially weighted moving average; Genetic algorithm; Variable sampling intervals

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTROL CHART; ECONOMIC DESIGN; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE; VARIABLE SAMPLING INTERVALS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248545090     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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