Pareto-optimality and a search for robustness: Choosing solutions with desired properties in objective space and parameter space

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 270-285

  Dumedah, Gift ^a   Berg, Aaron A ^b   Wineberg, Mark ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multi objective evolutionary algorithms; Non dominance; Parameter estimation; Paretooptimality; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865024603     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2011.120     Document Type: Article

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