Semiconductor Yield Forecasting Using Quadratic-Programming-Based Fuzzy Collaborative Intelligence Approach

Table 1

The differences between the proposed methodology and the previous methods.

Method	Expert collaboration	Partitioning the ranges of parameters	Models to solve	Easiness to solve	Optimality of the solution
Chen and Wang [9]	No	No	LP	Very easy	Global optimal
Chen and Lin [8]	Yes	Uniform partitioning	NLP	Very difficult	Local optimal
Wu et al. [12]	No	No	FBPN	Very difficult	Local optimal
The proposed methodology	Yes	Considering the effects on the objective function	QP	Easy	Global optimal