Handling uncertainty in higher dimensions with potential clouds towards robust design optimization

Advances in Soft Computing

Volumn 48, Issue , 2008, Pages 376-382

  Fuchs, Martin ^a   Neumaier, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clouds; Confidence regions; Design optimization; Potential clouds; Robust design; Uncertainty modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149136826     PISSN: 16153871     EISSN: 18600794     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85027-4_45     Document Type: Article

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