A new uncertain optimization method based on intervals and an approximation management model

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-118

  Jiang, C ^a   Han, X ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation model; Interval; Possibility degree of interval; Trust region; Uncertain optimization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

APPROXIMATION MODELS; NONLINEAR INTERVAL NUMBER PROGRAMMING (NINP) METHOD; POSSIBILITY DEGREE OF INTERVAL; TRUST REGIONS; UNCERTAIN OPTIMIZATION;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 36448949442     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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