Nonlinear Stochastic Optimization by the Monte-Carlo Method

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Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 455-468

  Sakalauskas, Leonidas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo method; Statistical decisions; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007992341     PISSN: 08684952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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