A comparative theoretical and computational study on robust counterpart optimization: III. Improving the quality of robust solutions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 13112-13124

  Li, Zukui ^a   Floudas, Christodoulos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

A-POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; A-PRIORI PROBABILITIES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; PROBABILISTIC CONSTRAINTS; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION METHOD;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84906346550     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie501898n     Document Type: Article

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