Friday 5th July 2013, 1130
IDSIA meeting room, Galleria 1, Manno
Noisy Industrial Process Optimisation via
Applied Response Surface Methods
based on Metaheuristic Elements
Prof. Dr. Pongchanun LUANGPAIBOON
Thammasat University, THAILAND
Abstract:
Many entrepreneurs face to extreme conditions for instances; costs, quality, sales
and services. Moreover, technology has always been intertwined with our demands. Then
almost manufacturers or assembling lines adopt it and come out with more complicated
process inevitably. At this stage, products and service improvement via a single response,
multiple responses or multiple responses with different priorities need to be shifted from
competitors with sustainability. Response surface methodology (RSM) is a bundle of
mathematical and statistical techniques that are helpful for modelling and analysing such
problems. RSM describes how the yield of a process varies with changes in influential
parameters. An objective is to optimise the response(s) from a suitable approximation of the
unknown relationship. Estimation of such surfaces via a low-order polynomial in some region,
and hence identification of near optimal settings for influential parameters via an extended
quadratic function is an important practical issue with interesting theoretical aspects.
Experimental designs and analyses are engineering strategies to systematically and
economically investigate systems. The special forms of designed experiments with application
principles consist of factorial, simplex and Taguchi designs. The first-order optimisation
approaches include the factorial or Taguchi design based methods (steepest descent or
ascent) and simplex design based methods. However, considering the noisy solution space in
a specified region, some surfaces contain the global optimum, multiple local optimums or a
curved ridge and some are with multiple responses. Metaheuristics are sequential processes
that perform exploration and exploitation in the solution space aiming to efficiently find near
optimal solutions with natural intelligence of stochastic random searches as a source of
inspiration. So, applied response surface methods based on stochastic evolutionary elements
including desirability and fuzzy functions are then introduced for solving those noisy, huge and
complex problems.