Algorithm 659: Implementing Sobol's quasirandom sequence generator

  • Authors:
  • Paul Bratley;Bennett L. Fox

  • Affiliations:
  • Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Station A, Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7;Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Station A, Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

We compare empirically accuracy and speed of low-discrepancy sequence generators of Sobol' and Faure. These generators are useful for multidimensional integration and global optimization. We discuss our implementation of the Sobol' generator.