Markovian algorithms for estimating the global maximum or minimum of real valued functions defined on some domain $\Omega \,\, \subset \,\, \mathbb{R}^{d}$ are presented. Conditions on the search ...
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Mar. - Apr., 2004), pp. 746-761 (16 pages) The goal of the paper is to study asymptotic behavior of the number of lost messages. Long messages are ...