MERLIN-3.0: A multidimensional optimization environment

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 109, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 227-249

  Papageorgiou, D G ^a   Demetropoulos, I N ^a   Lagaris, I E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Modeling; Neural network training; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CURVE FITTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTROL LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032046774     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-4655(98)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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