Global optima results for the Kauffman NK model

Mathematical Programming

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 319-338

  Kaul, Hemanshu ^a   Jacobson, Sheldon H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

NK model; Order statistics; PERT; Stochastic combinatorial optimization; Stochastic networks

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERT; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

NK MODEL; ORDER STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC NETWORKS;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 31744439493     PISSN: 00255610     EISSN: 14364646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10107-005-0609-0     Document Type: Article

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