... and the buyer as an agent. And then we regard the supplier and the buyer’s rational limitations to set up a model when the buyer’s quality evaluation and processing activities are hidden. The model is optimized and the results under different backgrounds are discussed and compared. Results show that the buyer’s...

...Young Hun Cho; Sung Hyun Park The desirability function approach to multiple response optimization is a useful technique for the analysis of experiments in which several responses are optimized simultaneously. But the existing methods have some defects, and have to be modified to some extent...

... of minimizing total cost is introduced. A case study is presented to illustrate the application in practice. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Quality improvement Optimization Geometrical features Quality loss function ...