A uniform experimental design(UED)is an extremely used powerful and efficient methodology for designing experiments with high-dimensional inputs,limited resources and unknown underlying models.A UED enjoys the followi...A uniform experimental design(UED)is an extremely used powerful and efficient methodology for designing experiments with high-dimensional inputs,limited resources and unknown underlying models.A UED enjoys the following two significant advantages:(i)It is a robust design,since it does not require to specify a model before experimenters conduct their experiments;and(ii)it provides uniformly scatter design points in the experimental domain,thus it gives a good representation of this domain with fewer experimental trials(runs).Many real-life experiments involve hundreds or thousands of active factors and thus large UEDs are needed.Constructing large UEDs using the existing techniques is an NP-hard problem,an extremely time-consuming heuristic search process and a satisfactory result is not guaranteed.This paper presents a new effective and easy technique,adjusted Gray map technique(AGMT),for constructing(nearly)UEDs with large numbers of four-level factors and runs by converting designs with s two-level factors and n runs to(nearly)UEDs with 2^(t−1)s four-level factors and 2tn runs for any t≥0 using two simple transformation functions.Theoretical justifications for the uniformity of the resulting four-level designs are given,which provide some necessary and/or sufficient conditions for obtaining(nearly)uniform four-level designs.The results show that the AGMT is much easier and better than the existing widely used techniques and it can be effectively used to simply generate new recommended large(nearly)UEDs with four-level factors.展开更多
In this paper,we deduced an iteration formula for the computation of central composite discrepancy.By using the iteration formula,the computational complexity of uniform design construction in flexible region can be g...In this paper,we deduced an iteration formula for the computation of central composite discrepancy.By using the iteration formula,the computational complexity of uniform design construction in flexible region can be greatly reduced.And we also made a refinement to threshold accepting algorithm to accelerate the algorithm's convergence rate.Examples show that the refined algorithm can converge to the lower discrepancy design more stably.展开更多
基金supported by the UIC Research Grants with No.of(R201912 and R202010)the Curriculum Development and Teaching Enhancement with No.of(UICR0400046-21CTL)+1 种基金the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science,BNU-HKBU United International College with No.of(2022B1212010006)Guangdong Higher Education Upgrading Plan(2021-2025)with No.of(UICR0400001-22).
文摘A uniform experimental design(UED)is an extremely used powerful and efficient methodology for designing experiments with high-dimensional inputs,limited resources and unknown underlying models.A UED enjoys the following two significant advantages:(i)It is a robust design,since it does not require to specify a model before experimenters conduct their experiments;and(ii)it provides uniformly scatter design points in the experimental domain,thus it gives a good representation of this domain with fewer experimental trials(runs).Many real-life experiments involve hundreds or thousands of active factors and thus large UEDs are needed.Constructing large UEDs using the existing techniques is an NP-hard problem,an extremely time-consuming heuristic search process and a satisfactory result is not guaranteed.This paper presents a new effective and easy technique,adjusted Gray map technique(AGMT),for constructing(nearly)UEDs with large numbers of four-level factors and runs by converting designs with s two-level factors and n runs to(nearly)UEDs with 2^(t−1)s four-level factors and 2tn runs for any t≥0 using two simple transformation functions.Theoretical justifications for the uniformity of the resulting four-level designs are given,which provide some necessary and/or sufficient conditions for obtaining(nearly)uniform four-level designs.The results show that the AGMT is much easier and better than the existing widely used techniques and it can be effectively used to simply generate new recommended large(nearly)UEDs with four-level factors.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11571133 and 11101173)。
文摘In this paper,we deduced an iteration formula for the computation of central composite discrepancy.By using the iteration formula,the computational complexity of uniform design construction in flexible region can be greatly reduced.And we also made a refinement to threshold accepting algorithm to accelerate the algorithm's convergence rate.Examples show that the refined algorithm can converge to the lower discrepancy design more stably.
