Living with the curse of dimensionality: Closed-loop optimization in a large-scale fisheries simulation model

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-60

  Woodward, Richard T ^a   Wui, Yong Suhk ^b   Griffin, Wade L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic optimization; Fisheries; Numerical methods; Simulation modeling

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY REGULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 13944274952     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0002-9092.2005.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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