Expectation of profit is the economic driving force motivating business activity in a free-enterprise economy. An increase in this profit for a given organization can be accomplis...
In a distributed system, a number of application tasks may need to be assigned to different processors such that the system cost is minimized and the constraints with limited reso...
We consider the average cost problem for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP) with finite state, observation, and control spaces. We prove that there exists an -...
Discrete-event simulation is widely used to analyse and improve the performance of manufacturing systems. The related optimization problem often includes integer design variables ...
S. J. Abspoel, L. F. P. Etman, J. Vervoort, J. E. ...
The Learnable Evolution Model (LEM) involves alternating periods of optimization and learning, performa extremely well on a range of problems, a specialises in achieveing good resu...