Application of genetic algorithms to an inversion of surface-wave dispersion data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 436-444

  Yamanaka, Hiroaki ^a   Ishida, Hiroshi ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KAJIMA TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION METHOD; INVERSION; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 0030454299     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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