A survey on OR and mathematical methods applied on gene-environment networks

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-341

  Weber, Gerhard Wilhelm ^a,b   Kropat, Erik ^c   Akteke Öztürk, Basak ^a   Görgülü, Zafer Korcan ^d  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Computational statistics; Dynamical systems; Environmental protection; Financial mathematics; Gene environment networks; Generalized semi infinite programming; Identification; Operational research; Structural stability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350037708     PISSN: 1435246X     EISSN: 16139178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-009-0092-4     Document Type: Article

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