Abstract Surrogate maximization (or minimization) (SM) algorithms are a family of algorithms that can be regarded as a generalization of expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. A...
The analysis of random coding error exponents pertaining to erasure/list decoding, due to Forney, is revisited. Instead of using Jensen’s inequality as well as some other inequa...
We compare two inventory systems, one in which excess demand is lost and the other in which excess demand is backordered. Both systems are reviewed periodically. They experience t...
Ganesh Janakiraman, Sridhar Seshadri, J. George Sh...