Schoofs, A.; Houten, M.; Etman, L.; Campen, D. - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 46 (1997) 3, pp. 335-359
Global and mid-range approximation concepts are used in engineering optimisation in those cases were the commonly used local approximations are not available or applicable. In this paper the response surface method is discussed as a method to build both global and mid-range approximations of the...