An optimisation method for complex product design

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 470-489

  Li, Ni ^a   Yi, Wenqing ^a   Bi, Zhuming ^b   Kong, Haipeng ^a   Gong, Guanghong ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

aircraft design; genetic algorithm; heuristic algorithm; parallel computing; qualitative and quantitative data; simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC OPTIMISATION; AIRCRAFT DESIGN; FUZZY SETS THEORY; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; OPTIMISATION METHOD; OPTIMISATION PROBLEMS; QUALITATIVE REASONING; QUANTITATIVE DATA;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT MODELS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; METADATA; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84884350717     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2012.743682     Document Type: Article

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