New measures of robustness in rare event simulation

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 519-527

  Cancela, Hector ^a   Rubino, Gerardo ^b   Tuffin, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY;

BOUNDED RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; BOUNDED RELATIVE ERROR; COVERAGE FUNCTION; RARE EVENT SIMULATION;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 33846699600     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2005.1574290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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