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Simulation-Based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes (Communications and Control Engineering)

Springer, 2013

Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of dimensionality and so making practical...

System Architecture with XML

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

"The whole world is talking XML, and the ramifications of its universal adoption are only beginning to surface. Whole business models will be affected by it; whole new business interests are being pursued because of it. The software industry itself will be rocked by it more than it cares to admit. This is so because XML brings us into the...

IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Packt Publishing, 2009

Business planning is no longer just about defining goals, identifying critical issues, and then mapping out strategies. In today's dynamic and highly competitive business environment, companies with complex business models want their abstract strategies turned into discrete, executable plans. They want information from the field to reach decision...

Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Modern day society relies on the operation of complex systems including aircraft, automobiles, electric power systems, economic entities, business organizations, banking and finance systems, computer networks, manufacturing systems, and industrial processes, Decision and control are responsible for ensuring that these systems perform...

First Steps in Random Walks: From Tools to Applications

Oxford University Press, 2011

The name "random walk" for a problem of a displacement of a point in a sequence of independent random steps was coined by Karl Pearson in 1905 in a question posed to readers of "Nature". The same year, a similar problem was formulated by Albert Einstein in one of his Annus Mirabilis works. Even earlier such a problem was...

Economics: Principles and Applications

South-Western College, 2007

Because issues of policy and real applications are critical to the principles of economics course, acclaimed economists Hall and Lieberman have made the latest edition of their cutting-edge text as current as today's headlines, giving students a real-world, up-to-the-minute overview that presents economics as a unified discipline. Taking...

Air Power and Freight: The View from the European Union and China (SpringerBriefs in Energy)

Springer, 2019

This book addresses the challenges of planning sustainable freight transport systems (road and air) in a time when the industry faces increasing pressure from environmental limits, climate change, carbon emission targets, bottlenecks in oil supply, infrastructure shortages and urban congestion. The author examines sustainable...

The Aging Kidney in Health and Disease

Springer, 2007

This volume will be a reliable source on the management of the elderly with renal disease. There is an ever-increasing proportion of the aging population affected by renal disease and hypertension, and physicians are faced with atypical clinical presentations of renal disease in the aged as compared to younger people. This volume combines the...

Alternative Sweeteners, Fourth Edition

CRC Press, 2011

Sweeteners are forever in the news. Whether it’s information about a new sweetener or questions about one that has been on the market for years, interest in sweeteners and sweetness continues. Completely revised and updated, this fourth edition of Alternative Sweeteners provides information on new, recently evaluated,...

Business Continuity Planning and HIPAA: Business Continuity Management in the Health Care Environment

Rothstein Associates, 2004

This book includes the precautions and procedures that address the concerns of HIPAA, but presents them along with other business components in order to emphasize the need for a holistic approach when constructing and maintaining a business plan.

This book examines business continuity planning as adapted to encompass the requirements of...

A Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications

World Bank Publications, 2003

The liberalization of the telecommunications markets in Sub-Saharan Africa led to increased competition on the provision and pricing of communication services. But, due to the lack of appropriate regulatory tools, newly established regulators are poorly equipped to arbitrate increasing interconnection disputes between competing operators.
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Fairness in Bargaining and Markets (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

Springer, 2009

This book contributes to behavioral economic research on the central issue of social preferences, focusing on the implications of social fairness norms on the interaction of market participants. The author uses both game-theoretic and experimental methods to analyze the implications of social fairness norms on the outcomes of bilateral...

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