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WSC
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation Optimization: Methods and Applications
Simulation optimization can be defined as the process of finding the best input variable values from among all possibilities without explicitly evaluating each possibility. The ob...
Yolanda Carson, Anu Maria
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Global Likelihood Optimization Via the Cross-Entropy Method, with an Application to Mixture Models
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Meta-Heuristic Based on Simulated Annealing for Solving Multiple-Objective Problems in Simulation Optimization
This paper presents a new meta heuristic algorithm based on the search method called simulated annealing, and its application to solving multi objective simulation optimization pr...
Eduardo Alberto Avello, Felipe F. Baesler, Reinald...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
New Advances and Applications for Marrying Simulation and Optimization
This tutorial will focus on several new real-world applications that have been developed using an integrated set of methods, including Tabu Search, Scatter Search, Mixed Integer P...
Jay April, Marco Better, Fred Glover, James P. Kel...
ICCMS
2009
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13 years 2 months ago
Optimized Parallel Implementation of Gillespie's First Reaction Method on Graphics Processing Units
The simulation of chemical reacting systems is one of the most challenging topics in Systems Biology, due to their complexity and inherent randomness. The Gillespie's Stochas...
Cristian Dittamo, Davide Cangelosi