Mean field simulation for Monte Carlo integration / Pierre Del Moral.

"A CRC title, part of the Taylor & Francis imprint, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group, the academic division of T&F Informa plc."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-273) and index.

Monte Carlo & mean field models -- Theory & applications -- I. Feynman-Kac models -- Feynman-Kac models -- Four equivalent particle interpretations -- Continuous time Feynman-Kac models -- Nonlinear evolutions of intensity measures -- II. Application domains -- Particle absorption models -- Signal processing and control systems -- III. Theoretical aspects -- Mean field Feynman-Kac models -- A general class of mean field models -- Empirical processes -- Feynman-Kac semigroups -- Intensity measure semigroups -- Particle density profiles -- Genealogical tree models -- Particle normalizing constants -- Backward particle Markov models.