An Evolutionary Firefly Algorithm for the Estimation of Nonlinear Biological Model Parameters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Abdullah, Afnizanfaizal ^a   Deris, Safaai ^a   Anwar, Sohail ^b   Arjunan, Satya N V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; PROTEIN P53;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATABOLISM; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION METHOD; FIREFLY ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NELDER MEAD METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARGININE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FIREFLIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84874601089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056310     Document Type: Article

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