The focus of this dissertation is on improving decision-maker trade-offs and the development of a new constrained methodology for multiple response surface optimization. There are three key components of the research: development of the necessary conditions and assumptions associated with...

Reliability-based structural optimization methods use mostly the following basic design criteria: I) Minimum weight (volume or costs) and II) high strength of the structure. Since several parameters of the structure, e.g. material parameters, loads, manufacturing errors, are not given, fixed...

Reliability-based structural optimization methods use mostly the following basic design criteria: I) Minimum weight (volume or costs) and II) high strength of the structure. Since several parameters of the structure, e.g. material parameters, loads, manufacturing errors, are not given, fixed...

This paper proposes a novel two-phase algorithm for a centralised production planning problem that covers both long-term and mid-term planning simultaneously. Mid-term decisions (first phase) include determining the amount of new inputs and outputs of units in the next production period and...