Comparison of experimental designs for simulation-based symbolic regression of manufacturing systems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 447-462

  Can, Birkan ^a   Heavey, Cathal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Decision support; Design of experiments; Discrete event simulation; Genetic programming; Metamodelling

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORTS; DIFFERENT SIZES; DISCRETE EVENTS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN TECHNIQUES; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; META MODEL; META-MODELLING; PROBLEM DOMAIN; PRODUCTION LINE; SAMPLE DATA; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINE; SIMULATION-BASED; SYMBOLIC REGRESSION; THROUGHPUT RATE;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MANUFACTURE; STATISTICS; THROUGHPUT;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80053204849     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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