Minimax optimization problem of structural design

E Cherkaev, A Cherkaev - Computers & Structures, 2008 - Elsevier
… This approach to the structural optimization was discussed in … the minimax design problem,
where the designed structure is … The multiplicity of optimal design that we find in the minimax

Optimization of the structure of the investment portfolio of high-tech companies based on the minimax criterion

A Borodin, M Tvaronavičienė, I Vygodchikova… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Two problems are solved on the basis of the minimax criterion. As a result, the … optimizing
the structure of the investment portfolio of high-tech companies based on the minimax criterion

Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion

C Boutilier, R Patrascu, P Poupart, D Schuurmans - Artificial Intelligence, 2006 - Elsevier
… the use of minimax regret as a suitable decision criterion for … minimax regret and regret-optimizing
solutions effectively. In particular, our methods exploit generalized additive structure in …

On the structural optimization for space applications using the min-max technique

AR De Faria, L Cardozo, IM Fonseca - 55th International Astronautical …, 2004 - arc.aiaa.org
… The goal of this present work is to apply the minimax method on the strain energy minimization
of structures under uncertain loads. The uncertain loads belong to a load space where …

Minimax and minimax projection designs using clustering

S Mak, VR Joseph - Journal of Computational and Graphical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… the proposed algorithm provides improved minimax performance over existing methods on
… a minimax projection design, and show that this proposed design provides better minimax

An engineering approach to multicriteria optimization of bridge structures

Z Lounis, MZ Cohn - Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
… The criteria of minimax and minimum Euclidian distance provide the designer with … structural
cost tends to be the dominant criterion, which in this paper is defined as the primary criterion

Minimax optimal designs via particle swarm optimization methods

RB Chen, SP Chang, W Wang, HC Tung… - Statistics and …, 2015 - Springer
… complex models and a more complicated heteroscedastic structure. Accordingly, we applied
Nested PSO and tested if it can find the minimax optimal design for the quadratic model with …

Structural minimax probability machine

B Gu, X Sun, VS Sheng - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
structural information of data. In this paper, we use two finite mixture models to capture the
structural … Based on the finite mixture models, we propose a structural MPM (SMPM). SMPM …

Near-optimal algorithms for minimax optimization

T Lin, C Jin, MI Jordan - Conference on Learning Theory, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
… 2009), as well as minimax optimization problems (as we show in later sections). … -convex-concave
minimax problem with additional structures. This includex optimizing a strongly convex …

Periodic version of the minimax distance criterion for Monte Carlo integration

J Eliáš, M Vořechovský, V Sadílek - Advances in Engineering Software, 2020 - Elsevier
… The standard minimax criterion ensures the design exhibits good space-filling property and
… for calculation of the minimax distance. Such periodic minimax criterion provides statistically …