On the efficiency of RESTART for multidimensional state systems

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-279

  Villén Altamirano, Manuel ^a   Villén Altamirano, José ^b  

^a TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Queues; Rare events; RESTART; Simulation; Splitting; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

MULTIDIMENSIONAL STATE SYSTEMS; RARE EVENTS; REPETITIVE SIMULATION TRIALS AFTER REACHING THRESHOLDS( RESTART); SPLITTING; VARIANCE REDUCTION;

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748288281     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: 10493301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1147224.1147227     Document Type: Article

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