Network reliability assessment through empirical models using a machine learning approach

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 40, Issue , 2007, Pages 145-174

  Rocco, Claudio M ^a   Muselli, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 33846172674     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-37372-8_6     Document Type: Article

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