A Lexicographic Nelder-Mead simulation optimization method to solve multi-criteria problems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 555-565

  Kuriger, Glenn W ^a   Hank Grant, F ^b  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal programming; Multi criteria optimization; Simulation; Simulation optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; GOAL PROGRAMMING; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM DOMAIN; QUALITY OF SOLUTION; SIMULATION; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD; STOCHASTIC COMPONENT; TEST PROBLEM;

OPTIMIZATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79952624199     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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