Computational Optimal Design and Uncertainty Quantification of Complex Systems Using Explicit Decision Boundaries

This dissertation presents a sampling-based method that can be used for uncertainty quantification and deterministic or probabilistic optimization. The objective is to simultaneously address several difficulties faced by classical techniques based on response values and their gradients. In particula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basudhar, Anirban
Other Authors: Missoum, Samy
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/201491