An artificial neural network meta-model for constrained simulation optimization

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1232-1244

  Mohammad Nezhad, Ali ^a   Mahlooji, Hashem ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

ANN; expensive simulation optimization; meta model based algorithm; SNOPT solver

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONSTRAINED SIMULATIONS; CONTINUOUS SIMULATION; META MODEL; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; SEQUENTIAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION; SNOPT SOLVER; STOCHASTIC CONSTRAINTS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84904615454     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2013.73     Document Type: Article

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