Analytic approach & Monte Carlo methods for realistic systems analysis

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 47, Issue 2-5, 1998, Pages 243-269

  Dubi, A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo methods; System engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000577808     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4754(98)00122-0     Document Type: Article

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