Convergence of concurrent Markov chain Monte-Carlo algorithms

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-189

  Malfait, Maurits ^a   Roose, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODELS; STOCHASTIC ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030128052     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199604)8:3<167::AID-CPE198>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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