Robust optimization in simulation: Taguchi and Krige combined

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 471-484

  Dellino, Gabriella ^a   Kleijnen, Jack P C ^b   Meloni, Carlo ^c  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Design of experiments; Inventory production; Risk; Simulation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY; GAUSSIAN PROCESS MODELS; INVENTORY MODELS; KNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; KRIGING; KRIGING METAMODELS; ORDER QUANTITY; PARETO FRONTIERS; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TAGUCHI; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

DECISION THEORY; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION; RISKS; STATISTICS;

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80655132498     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1110.0465     Document Type: Article

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