Second order stochastic dominance characterizes risk-averse preferences represented by expected utility. This paper supplies second order stochastic dominance conditions that char...
We prove that for graphs of order n, minimum degree 2 and girth g 5 the domination number satisfies 1 3 + 2 3g n. As a corollary this implies that for cubic graphs of order n ...
We study the generation of uniformly distributed linear extensions using Markov chains. In particular we show that monotone coupling from the past can be applied in the case of lin...
Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyze and compare two standard portfolio insurance methods: Option-based Portfolio Insurance (OBPI) and Constant Proportion Portfolio I...
Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...