Bayesian-validated surrogates for noisy computer simulations; application to random media

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 973-992

  Yeşilyurt, Serhat ^a   Ghaddar, Chahid K ^a   Cruz, Manuel E ^a   Patera, Anthony T ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Monte Carlo methods; Nonparametric validation; Optimization; Order statistics; PAC learning algorithms; Parallel computing; Random media; Simulation surrogates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000933315     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/0917063     Document Type: Article

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