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 ...

Understanding the differences between probabilistic and deterministric AI will help manufacturers make more informed choices and achieve measurable results.

The design and construction of capital projects can be extremely complex. Uncertainty and risk add to this complexity and, as a result, many projects experience significant cost overruns and schedule ...

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 ...