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WSC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Monte Carlo simulation approach to stochastic programming
Various stochastic programmingproblemscan be formulated as problems of optimization of an expected value function. Quite often the corresponding expectation function cannot be com...
Alexander Shapiro
WSC
1997
13 years 10 months ago
Comparison of Monte Carlo and Deterministic Methods for Non-Adaptive Optimization
In this paper we compare the average performance of Monte Carlo methods for global optimization with non-adaptive deterministic alternatives. We analyze the behavior of the algori...
Hisham A. Al-Mharmah, James M. Calvin
PG
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
GPU-Based Monte-Carlo Volume Raycasting
This paper presents a practical, high-quality, hardwareaccelerated volume rendering approach including scattering, environment mapping, and ambient occlusion. We examine the appli...
Christof Rezk-Salama
IJAR
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
A forward-backward Monte Carlo method for solving influence diagrams
Although influence diagrams are powerful tools for representing and solving complex decisionmaking problems, their evaluation may require an enormous computational effort and this...
Andrés Cano, Manuel Gómez, Seraf&iac...
ANOR
2005
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13 years 8 months ago
The Cross-Entropy Method for Network Reliability Estimation
Abstract. Consider a network of unreliable links, modelling for example a communication network. Estimating the reliability of the network
Kin-Ping Hui, Nigel Bean, Miro Kraetzl, Dirk P. Kr...