A framework for simulation-optimization software

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-229

  Boesel, Justin ^a   Nelson, Barry L ^b   Ishii, Nobuaki ^c  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c JGC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR COMPENSATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SEARCH HEURISTICS; STATISTICAL ERROR CONTROL; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0037334899     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170304364     Document Type: Article

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