Filtered importance sampling with support vector margin: A powerful method for structural reliability analysis

Structural Safety

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-15

  Hurtado, Jorge E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Importance sampling; Markov chains; Monte Carlo simulation; Neural networks; Structural reliability; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749045422     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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