Stochastic processes in statistical mechanics

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Stochastic processes and simulation methods In this Chapter I present analytical and numerical tools required to tackle the challenges of the biological models used in the Chapters that follow. Stochastic processes in statistical...

Types of stochastic processes and methods of observation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » A FINITE SOURCE MULTI-SERVER INVENTORY SYSTEM WITH SERVICE FACILITY INTRODUCTION One implicit assumption made by many previous stochastic inventory models is that the item whose inventory is kept is made available to the...

Probabilistic Analysis of Distributed Dynamic Processes 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Contributions Dynamic Processes The first part of the thesis concerns the analysis of infinite dynamic processes by means of carefully crafted potentials and the analysis of the potential through (general) random walks. We...

Markov Decision Processes

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement learning [94] is learning from interaction with an environment to achieve a goal. It is a powerful framework to solve sequential decision-making prob-lems. The agent discovers which actions produce the...

Stochastic Approximation and Least-Squares Regression 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Supervised Machine Learning Supervised machine learning aims at understanding the relationship between ele-ments of an arbitrary input set X and elements of an arbitrary output set Y. Typically X = Rd for a...

Branching processes conditioned on non-extinction 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Multitype branching processes conditioned on non-extinction We mentioned in the introduction how much the study of the extinction of populations is of a great interest in biology. Conditioning on non-extinction can notably lead...

Conclusions relative to environmental stochasticity effects on reproduction in Experiments B1 and B2.

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Effect of environment on sexual selection Environment may vary across time (Chaine & Lyon, 2008; Kasumovic, Bruce, Andrade, & Herberstein, 2008) and across space (spatial heterogeneity), and may act at different spatial scales:...

The limits of biological control datasets to investigate ecological processes at fine scale

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Landscape ecology Biological control is usually deployed over multiple locally restrained areas, granting the opportunity to investigate the role of landscape features on population interactions and dynamics. Furthermore, agroecosystems, which is the target...

Adaptive and dynamic decision-making processes: A conceptual model of production systems on Indian farms

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Improvements and deepening for the NAMASTE model Climate scenarios and water management policies have been tested during my thesis. However many improvements in the computer implementation are possible and could not be done...

Uncertainty of transportation time due to stochastic degradation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Computational results: Extended Problem This section provides the results of implementing the mathematical models of the Extended Problem (see Sections 3.3.1 and 3.3.2) on the real industrial case and solving them by the...