We discuss tournaments in terms of their efficiency as probabilistic mechanisms that select high-quality alternatives ("players") in a noisy environment. We use two crit...
We study the stability of a variant of Kelly's rate control scheme in a simple setting with a single flow and a single resource. The feedback signal from the resource is a fun...
The cross-entropy method (CE) developed by R. Rubinstein is an elegant practical principle for simulating rare events. The method approximates the probability of the rare event by...
Concept mapping systems used in education and knowledge management emphasize flexibility of representation to enhance learning and facilitate knowledge capture. Collections of con...
Abstract: While code division multiple access (CDMA) is becoming a promising cellular communication system, the design for a CDMA cellular system configuration has posed a practica...