Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice, Fourth Edition

804 Index Change in constraint coefficients, 215 Change in cost coefficients, 212 Change in right hand side constants, 208 Chara ...

Index 805 Cooling fin, 675 Correlation, 640 Correlation coefficient, 640 Correlation matrix, 646 Covariance, 640 Covariance matr ...

806 Index Elimination methods–comparison, 271 Engineering applications of optimization, 5 Engineering optimization literature, 3 ...

Index 807 Genetic algorithms, 3, 693, 694, 701 Genetic operators, 697 Geometric boundary conditions, 671 Geometric constraints, ...

808 Index J Jacobian, 82 Joint density function, 639 Joint distribution function, 639 Jointly distributed random variables, 639 ...

Index 809 Motivation of simplex method, 138 Multibay cantilever truss, 578 Multilayer feedforward network, 729 Multilevel optimi ...

810 Index Particle swarm optimization (continued) particle, 708 position, 708 velocity, 708 Pattern directions, 318 Pattern reco ...

Index 811 Reciprocal approximation, 685 Recurrence relationship, 551 Reduced basis technique, 737 Reduction ratio, 265 Reduction ...

812 Index Standard deviation, 635, 636 Standard form of LP problem, 122 Standard normal distribution, 643 Standard normal tables ...

Index 813 Underachievement, 766 Uniform distribution, 643 Unimodal function, 253 Union of fuzzy sets, 725 Univariate distributio ...