Stochastic model checking of genetic circuits

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Madsen, Curtis ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^b   Roehner, Nicholas ^b   Winstead, Chris ^c   Myers, Chris ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous stochastic logic; Design space exploration; Markov chain analysis; Stochastic model checking; Synthetic genetic circuits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LOGIC CIRCUITS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODEL CHECKING; NUMERICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC FUELS; TIME SERIES; TIMING CIRCUITS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CONTINUOUS STOCHASTIC LOGIC; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN; DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; GENETIC CIRCUITS; GENETIC OSCILLATORS; MARKOV CHAIN ANALYSIS; SIMULATION BASED APPROACHES; TIME-SERIES DATA;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84920671313     PISSN: 15504832     EISSN: 15504840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2644817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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