eprintid: 1441 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 17 dir: disk0/00/00/14/41 datestamp: 2012-11-30 08:34:15 lastmod: 2012-11-30 08:34:15 status_changed: 2012-11-30 08:34:15 type: article succeeds: 754 metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Dellino, Gabriella creators_name: Kleijnen, Jack P.C. creators_name: Meloni, Carlo creators_id: gabriella.dellino@imtlucca.it creators_id: creators_id: title: Simulation-optimization under uncertainty through metamodeling and bootstrapping ispublished: pub subjects: QA subjects: T1 divisions: EIC full_text_status: public keywords: Simulation-optimization; Uncertainty; Robustness; Metamodel; Bootstrap note: Sixth International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output abstract: Most methods in simulation-optimization assume known environments, whereas this research accounts for uncertain environments combining Taguchi's world view with either regression or Kriging (Gaussian Process) metamodels (response surfaces). These metamodels are combined with Non-Linear Mathematical Programming (NLMP) to find a robust optimal solution. Varying the constraint values in the NLMP model gives an estimated Pareto frontier. To account for the variability of the estimated Pareto frontier, this research uses bootstrapping which gives confidence regions for the robust optimal solution. This methodology is illustrated through the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) inventory-management model, accounting for the uncertainties in the demand rate and the cost coefficients. date: 2010 publication: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences volume: 2 number: 6 publisher: Elsevier pagerange: 7640 - 7641 id_number: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.05.156 refereed: TRUE issn: 1877-0428 official_url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810012978 citation: Dellino, Gabriella and Kleijnen, Jack P.C. and Meloni, Carlo Simulation-optimization under uncertainty through metamodeling and bootstrapping. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2 (6). 7640 - 7641. ISSN 1877-0428 (2010) document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1441/1/SAMO2010_Dellinoetal_abstract_version%202%20by%20Jack.pdf