Title :
Overview of ordinal optimization
Author_Institution :
Div. of Appl. Sci., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Concerns optimisation in the general sense of making things better, the principal driver behind all of prescriptive scientific and engineering endeavor. In particular, discrete-event dynamic systems are considered. The approach followed is based on the principles that much computation can be shared in the case of structurally similar systems; that easing the strict requirement of optimality can make an intractable problem tractable; and that for a given performance distribution it is possible to estimate various statistical measures of this distribution via sampling
Keywords :
computational complexity; discrete event systems; optimisation; discrete-event dynamic systems; engineering endeavor; ordinal optimization; performance distribution; scientific endeavor; statistical measures; structurally similar systems; tractability; Air traffic control; Computer networks; Design engineering; Design optimization; Modems; Operations research; Optimization methods; Performance analysis; Response surface methodology; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1994., Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1968-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1994.411087
