A subsystems approach for parameter estimation of ODE models of hybrid   systems
  We present a new method for parameter identification of ODE system descriptions based on data measurements. Our method works by splitting the system into a number of subsystems and working on each of them separately, thereby being easily parallelisable, and can also deal with noise in the observations. 
Anastasis Georgoulas, Allan Clark, Andrea Ocone, Stephen Gilmore,   Guido Sanguinetti
cs.CE q-bio.QM