Applications of optimization heuristics to estimation and modelling problems

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 211-223

  Winker, Peter ^a   Gilli, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Modelling; Optimization heuristic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MEMETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION HEURISTIC; STATISTICAL MODELING;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 4444345418     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2003.11.026     Document Type: Article

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