— Approximating the sum of Log–Normal random variables (RVs) is a long–standing open issue, in the old and recent literature, and many approaches have been proposed to deal w...
Marco Di Renzo, Fabio Graziosi, Fortunato Santucci
This paper presents a technique for efficiently generating random numbers from a given probability distribution. This is achieved by using a generic hardware architecture, which t...
We consider multi-class blocking systems in which jobs require a single processing step. There are groups of servers that can each serve a different subset of all job classes. The...
We study the problem of scheduling independent tasks on a set of related processors which have a probability of failure governed by an exponential law. We are interested in the bi-...
We present a novel disambiguation method for unification-based grammars (UBGs). In contrast to other methods, our approach obviates the need for probability models on the UBG side...