In Internet based commerce, sellers often use multiple distribution channels for the sale of standard consumer goods. We study a model of second degree price discrimination in whi...
A simple dynamic model of agent operation of an infrastructure system is presented. This system evolves over a long time scale by a daily increase in consumer demand that raises t...
Benjamin A. Carreras, David E. Newman, Ian Dobson,...
We introduce and study qualitative multiple outcomes games. These games are noncooperative games with qualitative utilities (i.e., values over an ordinal scale), strictly qualitat...
This paper introduces a novel solver, namely cross entropy (CE), into the MRF theory for medical image segmentation. The solver, which is based on the theory of rare event simulati...
: One of the most debatable features of Event driven Process Chains (EPCs) is their non-local semantics. Most non-local semantics for EPCs either have a formal flaw or are given i...