A derivative is a financial asset whose future payoff is a function of underlying assets. Pricing a financial derivative involves setting up a market model, finding a martingale (“fair game”) ...

Ballistic impacts on human thorax without penetration can produce severe injuries or even death of the carrier. Soft tissue finite element models must capture the non-linear elasticity and strain-rate ...

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Download PDF Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library The maximum flow problem and its generalization, the minimum-cost flow problem, are classic combinatorial graph problems that find ...

1 Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities, University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2 General Education Department, City University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 3 Department of Mathematics, ...

Uncertainties are widespread in the optimization of process systems, such as uncertainties in process technologies, prices, and customer demands. In this paper, we review the basic concepts and recent ...

Employee or labor scheduling is associated with assigning an appropriate number of workers to the jobs during each day of work. It requires determining when staff members will work and when part-time, ...

Worse-case analysis takes a “Murphy’s Law” approach to algorithm analysis, which is too crude to give meaningful algorithmic guidance for many important problems, including linear programming, ...

Algorithms are pre-defined, self-contained sets of instructions designed to execute diverse functions, and they have been around for longer than you might expect. From ancient Babylon to the present ...