Risk and uncertainty are rarely evaluated as an integral part of the planning process. An array of risks—from hydrocarbon potential and operating characteristics, to political or market factors—can ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb., 1993), pp. 71-97 (27 pages) This paper is concerned with the design and probabilistic analysis of algorithms for the maximum-flow problem and ...

Probability calculations determine the chance of a specific event occurring. This calculation factors in the number of positive events with respect to the total number of possible results. When you ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 786-802 (17 pages) In the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with unsplit demands, a customer's demand may not be divided over ...

Yuko Kinoshita receives funding from Australian Research Council (Project name: The Big Australian Speech Corpus). She is affiliated with the Forensic Speech Science Committee (FSSC) of the ...

One of the coldest winters in recent memory has provided plenty of fodder for global-warming skeptics. However, a physics professor at McGill University in Montreal claims that his analysis of ...