Kleijnen, Jack P.C.; Den Hertog, Dick; Angun, M.E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002
Response Surface Methodology (RSM) searches for the input combination maximizing the output of a real system or its simulation.RSM is a heuristic that locally fits first-order polynomials, and estimates the corresponding steepest ascent (SA) paths.However, SA is scale-dependent; and its step...