Determining the optimal sampling set size for random search

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1016-1024

  Zhu, Chenbo ^a   Xu, Jie ^b   Chen, Chun Hung ^b   Lee, Loo Hay ^c   Hu, Jianqiang ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84894145358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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