Towards optimal allocation of computer resources: Trade-offs between uncertainty quantification, discretization and model reduction

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-107

  Leube, Philipp C ^a   de Barros, Felipe P J ^b   Nowak, Wolfgang ^a   Rajagopal, Ram ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational costs; Optimal design; Stochastic hydrology; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; STOCHASTIC HYDROLOGIES; STOCHASTIC RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884926040     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.08.008     Document Type: Article

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