RSA
2002
13 years 8 months ago
2002
: We prove the main conjecture of the paper "On the expected value of the minimum assignment" by Marshall W. Buck, Clara S. Chan, and David P. Robbins [Random Structures ...
COMBINATORICS
2002
13 years 8 months ago
2002
If we compose sufficiently many random functions on a finite set, then the composite function will be constant. We determine the number of compositions that are needed, on average...
ORL
2008
13 years 8 months ago
2008
We propose a sample average approximation (SAA) method for stochastic programming problems involving an expected value constraint. Such problems arise, for example, in portfolio s...
WSC
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
The problem of path planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with a tracking mission, when some a priori information about the targets and the environment is available can in s...
WSC
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Statistical selection procedures can identify the best of a finite set of alternatives, where “best” is defined in terms of the unknown expected value of each alternative’...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2005
Springer
NK models provide a family of tunably rugged fitness landscapes used in a wide range of evolutionary computation studies. It is well known that the average height of local optima...