Moment closures for performance models with highly non-linear rates

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7587 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-47

  Guenther, Marcel C ^a   Stefanek, Anton ^a   Bradley, Jeremy T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluid analysis; Log normal closure; Normal closure

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION RATE; EXACT RESULTS; FINITE NUMBER; FLUID ANALYSIS; HIGHER-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER POLYNOMIALS; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MEAN-FIELD; MOMENT CLOSURE; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NORMAL CLOSURE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PIECEWISE LINEAR; QUADRATIC RATES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 84874306500     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36781-6_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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