New estimators for parallel steady-state simulations

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 469-474

  Hsieh, Ming Hua ^a   Glynn, Peter W ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIANS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; PARALLEL DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATIONS; SCHWARZ; STEADY STATE PARAMETER; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; TEST PROBLEM; TIME AVERAGES; TIME POINTS;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77951547465     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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