COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on ALGORITHMS FOR DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/csda
http://www.compstat2012.org/SpecialIssues/Design2.pdf
We are inviting submissions for the special issue of Computational
Statistics and Data Analysis that describes or compares algorithms for
design of experiments.
Many modern experiments are too large or complex to enable standard
off-the-shelf designs to be used. There is therefore increasing
interest in algorithms that use computing power to find designs that
would be too difficult to construct in an ad hoc fashion. One of the
great benefits of many algorithmic methods is that they are very
flexible in the design parameters they allow, e.g. mixed numbers of
levels, irregularly shaped regions of experimentation or multiple
strata. Algorithms may use combinatorial construction methods, or
algebraic ideas to allow otherwise unfeasible exhaustive searches, or
continuous optimization for approximate designs, or discrete
optimization heuristics. The latter include many types of
deterministic algorithms, though there has been increasing interest in
algorithms with at least some stochastic component. This special issue
aims to explore the diversity of the algorithms, and the types of
design for which they are used.
Key topics are:
Complex blocking structures
Design for generalized hierarchical linear and nonlinear mixed models
Experiments with mixtures
Fractional factorial designs
Multi-tiered experiments
Nonlinear design
Response surface methodology
Split-plot and multi-stratum designs
Supersaturated designs
The papers should have a computational statistics or advanced data
analytic component in order to be considered for publication. Authors
who are uncertain about the suitability of their papers should contact
the special issue editors. All submissions must contain original
unpublished work not being considered for publication
elsewhere. Submissions will be refereed according to standard
procedures for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Information
about the journal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/csda.
The deadline for submissions is *30 June 2012*. However, papers can be
submitted at any time; and, when they have been received, they will
enter the editorial system immediately.
Papers for the special issue should be submitted directly to the
Elsevier Electronic Submission tool EES: http://ees.elsevier.com/csda
In EES please ensure that you select the special issue on "Algorithms
for Design of Experiments" and the Co-Editor responsible for the
special issues.
The special issue editors:
Steven Gilmour, University of Southampton, UK
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Roger Payne, VSN International, UK
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