Adaptive importance sampling Monte Carlo simulation of rare transition events

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  De Koning, Maurice ^a,b   Cai, Wei ^b   Sadigh, Babak ^b   Oppelstrup, Tomas ^b   Kalos, Malvin H ^b   Bulatov, Vasily V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RARE-EVENT SIMULATIONS; SAMPLING METHODS; TRANSITION PATHS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROUND STATE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 22944476115     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1844352     Document Type: Article

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