Wr. Esposito et Ca. Floudas, PARAMETER-ESTIMATION IN NONLINEAR ALGEBRAIC MODELS VIA GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION, Computers & chemical engineering, 22, 1998, pp. 213-220
The estimation of parameters in semi-empirical nonlinear models throug
h the error-in-variables method has been widely studied from a computa
tional standpoint. This method involves the minimization of a quadrati
c objective function subject to the model equations being satisfied. D
ue to the nonlinear nature of these models, the resulting formulation
is nonconvex in nature. The approaches to solve this problem presented
so far in the literature, although computationally efficient, only of
fer convergence to a local solution df a model which may contain multi
ple minima. In this paper a global optimization approach based on a br
anch-and-bound framework will be presented to solve the error-in-varia
bles formulation. Various estimation problems were solved and will be
presented to illustrate the theoretical and computational aspects of t
he proposed method. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
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