Research Article

Estimation of Optimum Dilution in the GMAW Process Using Integrated ANN-GA

Table 12

Conditions to define limitation constraint bounds of integrated ANN-GA.

ConditionDecision
Lower boundUpper bound

(1) (OptANN) < (OptGA)OptANNOptGA
(2) (OptANN) > (OptGA)OptGAOptANN
(3) (OptANN) = (OptGA)Nearest lower bound of the coded value of experimental designNearest upper bound of
the coded value of experimental design