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- Title
Novel metaheuristic for parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamic biological systems.
- Authors
Rodriguez-Fernandez, Maria; Egea, Jose A; Banga, Julio R
- Abstract
We consider the problem of parameter estimation (model calibration) in nonlinear dynamic models of biological systems. Due to the frequent ill-conditioning and multi-modality of many of these problems, traditional local methods usually fail (unless initialized with very good guesses of the parameter vector). In order to surmount these difficulties, global optimization (GO) methods have been suggested as robust alternatives. Currently, deterministic GO methods can not solve problems of realistic size within this class in reasonable computation times. In contrast, certain types of stochastic GO methods have shown promising results, although the computational cost remains large. Rodriguez-Fernandez and coworkers have presented hybrid stochastic-deterministic GO methods which could reduce computation time by one order of magnitude while guaranteeing robustness. Our goal here was to further reduce the computational effort without loosing robustness.
- Publication
BMC bioinformatics, 2006, Vol 7, p483
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-7-483