Selecting the best simulated design with the expected opportunity cost bound

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2785-2790

  Gao, Siyang ^a   Shi, Leyuan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Opportunity cost; ranking and selection; sequential procedure; simulation optimization

Indexed keywords

COSTS;

DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; PROBABILITY OF CORRECT SELECTIONS; RANKING AND SELECTION; SELECTION PROCEDURES; SEQUENTIAL PROCEDURES; SIMULATION EFFICIENCY; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84937848134     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2398888     Document Type: Article

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