Component-by-component construction of low-discrepancy point sets of small size

Monte Carlo Methods and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-149

  Doerr, Benjamin ^a   Gnewuch, Michael ^b   Kritzer, Peter ^c,d   Pillichshammer, Friedrich ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Derandomization; Multivariate integration; Star discrepancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549140642     PISSN: 09299629     EISSN: 15693961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MCMA.2008.007     Document Type: Article

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