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Examination timetabling problems are often solved by a two-phase procedure combining a sequential construction heuristic with a metaheuristic improvement search. There can be many...
We present a new approach to pricing American-style derivatives that is applicable to any Markovian setting (i.e., not limited to geometric Brownian motion) for which European cal...
Scott B. Laprise, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus,...
Abstract. In this paper we consider two performance modelling techniques from the perspectives of model construction, generation of an underlying continuous time Markov process, an...
Wireless sensor networks consist of energy-constrained sensor nodes operating unattended in highly dynamic environments. In this paper, we advocate a systematic decentralized appro...