“Faster, Better, Cheaper” (FBC) was a systems development methodology used by NASA in the 1990s. While usually a deprecated practice, we find that, with certain caveats, it is...
Abstract--We consider a set of multicast sources, each multicasting a finite amount of data to its corresponding destinations. The objective is to minimize the time to deliver all ...
The simulation of chemical reacting systems is one of the most challenging topics in Systems Biology, due to their complexity and inherent randomness. The Gillespie's Stochas...
Sustainable resource management in many domains presents large continuous stochastic optimization problems, which can often be modeled as Markov decision processes (MDPs). To solv...
— We evaluate the average waiting time between observing the price of financial markets and the next price change, especially in an on-line foreign exchange trading service for ...