— Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a widely used formalism for describing complex systems that have random behavior. Sophisticated software tools exist for the modeling an...
David M. Nicol, Steve Hanna, Frank Stratton, Willi...
Decision making is the ability to decide on the best alternative among a set of candidates based on their value. In many real-world domains the value depends on events that occur ...
The optimization of spacecraft trajectories can be formulated as a global optimization task. The complexity of the problem depends greatly on the problem formulation, on the spacec...
The quality of a programming language itself is only one component in the ability of application writers to get the job done. Programming languages can succeed or fail based on th...
Bayesian networks (BNs) are used to represent and ef ciently compute with multi-variate probability distributions in a wide range of disciplines. One of the main approaches to per...