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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2002
David Joseph Kropaczek, Kure Beach, NC (US);
William Charles Cline, Wilmington, NC (US);
William Earl Russell, Ii, Wilmington, NC (US);
David Joseph Kropaczek, Kure Beach, NC (US);
William Charles Cline, Wilmington, NC (US);
William Earl Russell, II, Wilmington, NC (US);
Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, LLC, Wilmington, NC (US);
Abstract
The method and apparatus adaptively determine weighting factors within the context of an objective function for handling optimality conditions and constraints within an optimization search. The objective function is defined as a sum of credit and penalty components. The credit components represent the optimality conditions for the problem. The penalty components represent the constraint violations for the problem. Initially, each component is made up of a weight multiplied by a mathematical expression, called a term, that quantifies either an optimality condition or a constraint violation. The set of credit and penalty weights are adaptively determined based on the progress of an optimization search. Both static and dynamic representations of the modified objective function are used to perform the adaption.