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Further Information
James C. Spall
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Rd.
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
USA

The list below includes some of the sites that are related to the topics in the book Introduction to Stochastic Search and Optimization. This list is only a sampling of related sites. Feel free to send additional sites to James C. Spall.

Genetic algorithms (University of Illinois)
http://illigal.org/

Johns Hopkins University course in simulation and Monte Carlo (syllabus)
http://apps.ep.jhu.edu/course-homepages/viewpage.php?homepage_id=2614

Johns Hopkins University course in stochastic search and optimization (syllabus)
http://apps.ep.jhu.edu/course-homepages/viewpage.php?homepage_id=2585

Modeling and simulation (Hossein Arsham, University of Baltimore)
http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/

Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) (Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory)
www.jhuapl.edu/SPSA

Stochastic programming bibliography (Maarten H. van der Vlerk, University of Groningen)
mally.eco.rug.nl/spbib.html

Stochastic programming community home page
stoprog.org

Wiley and Sons, Inc. mathematics site (Introduction to Stochastic Search and Optimization is under link for optimization)
www.wiley.com/mathematics