Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
One of the important sectors within gambling is that of gaming machines. This industry used to favour approaches based on long-run simulations or complete enumerations of all poss...
Many formal models of cognition implicitly use subjective probability distributions to capture the assumptions of human learners. Most applications of these models determine these...
Based on the probabilistic reformulation of principal component analysis (PCA), we consider the problem of determining the number of principal components as a model selection prob...
Zhihua Zhang, Kap Luk Chan, James T. Kwok, Dit-Yan...
We propose a new estimator for some performance measures obtained from a regenerative simulation of a discrete-time Markov chain. Our new estimator is based on the idea of generat...