A simulated annealing technique for multi-objective simulation optimization

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 215, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3029-3035

  Alrefaei, Mahmoud H ^a   Diabat, Ali H ^b  

^a QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Multi objective simulation optimization; Simulated annealing; Simulation optimization

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE SOLUTION; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; INVENTORY PROBLEM; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI-OBJECTIVE SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION VALUES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING TECHNIQUES; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANNEALING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 70449518018     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2009.09.051     Document Type: Article

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