RSA
2002
14 years 2 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
14 years 2 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
14 years 2 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
14 years 5 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
14 years 5 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 8 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...