Distributed and generic maximum likelihood evaluation

Proceedings - e-Science 2007, 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 337-344

  Desell, Travis ^a   Cole, Nathan ^b   Magdon Ismail, Malik ^a   Newberg, Heidi ^b   Szymanski, Boleslaw ^a   Varela, Carlos ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MICROFLUIDICS;

E SCIENCES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 44949179277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2007.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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