Enhancing wildland fire prediction on cluster systems applying evolutionary optimization techniques

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-67

  Abdalhaq, Baker ^a   Cortés, Ana ^a   Margalef, Tomàs ^a   Luque, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Fire prediction; Optimization convergence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION CONVERGENCE; PROGRAMMING PARADIGM; REAL PROPAGATION;

FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 10444241261     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2004.09.013     Document Type: Article

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