Model optimization and parameter estimation with Nimrod/O

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3991 LNCS - I, Issue , 2006, Pages 720-727

  Abramson, David ^a   Peachey, Tom ^a   Lewis, Andrew ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISTRIBUTED PARALLEL MACHINES; MODEL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 33746593266     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11758501_96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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