While risk-sensitive (RS) approaches for designing plans of total productive maintenance are critical in manufacturing systems, there is little in the literature by way of theoret...
Deckling, cutting stock or trim loss problems arise when small units are to be fitted into large ones. One aims to reduce stock usage and setups, then favors long runs, surplus ov...
Adolf Diegel, Garth Miller, Edouard Montocchio, Si...
In a previous paper, we developed an algebraic theory about threads and multi-threading based on the assumption that a deterministic interleaving strategy determines how threads ar...
The term neural network evolution usually refers to network topology evolution leaving the network's parameters to be trained using conventional algorithms. In this paper we ...
Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Dimitris Gavrilis, Euripidis G...
This paper studies efficient learning with respect to mind changes. Our starting point is the idea that a learner that is efficient with respect to mind changes minimizes mind cha...