Applying least squares support vector machines to the airframe wing-box structural design cost estimation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 8417-8423

  Deng, S ^a   Yeh, Tsung Han ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Airframe structure; Back propagation neural networks; Cost estimation; Least squares support vector machines; Response surface methodology

Indexed keywords

AIRFRAMES; BACKPROPAGATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AIRFRAME STRUCTURES; BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; COST ESTIMATIONS; LEAST SQUARES SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 77957847865     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.05.038     Document Type: Article

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