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Efficient representations and solutions for large decision problems with continuous and discrete variables are among the most important challenges faced by the designers of automa...
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Top trees are a dynamic self-adjusting data structure that can be used by any tree algorithm. Actually, an arbitrary number of different tree algorithms can use a single structure....