Random sampling-based automatic parameter tuning for nonlinear programming solvers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3907-3918

  Chen, Weifeng ^a   Shao, Zhijiang ^a   Wang, Kexin ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Biegler, Lorenz T ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARD PROBLEMS; HEURISTIC RULES; IN-PROCESS; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETER-TUNING; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RANDOM SAMPLING; REAL-TIME OPTIMIZATION; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; TERMINATION CRITERIA; TIME-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79953296234     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100826y     Document Type: Article

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