When the initial and transition probabilities of a finite Markov chain in discrete time are not well known, we should perform a sensitivity analysis. This is done by considering a...
The theory of evolutionary computation has been enhanced rapidly during the last decade. This survey is the attempt to summarize the results regarding the limit and nite time behav...
We present exchange formulas that allow to express the stationary distribution of a continuous Markov chain with denumerable state-space having generator matrix Q∗ through a con...
This paper introduces an extension of recurrence analysis to symbolic sequences. Heuristic arguments based on Shannon-McMillan-Breiman theorem suggest several relations between th...
We consider repairable reliability systems with m components, the lifetimes and repair times of which are independent. The l-th component can be either in the failure state 0 or i...