not too rare to be found by a reasonable mutation process, and that typical simulation paths take the population from …

The papers in this special issue of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation cover the following topics: improving …, globalization, and innovation: a general equilibrium simulation, whether exchange rates affect consumer prices: a comparative …

the distribution of benefits between the generations? We address these issues analytically and with simulation (using data … subsidy for home care paid to the parents be defined, in budgetary or in welfare terms, and what does simulation tell us about … the calculation of the shifting of program benefits between family members, some of whom may be altruistic, are key issues …

probabilities andspecial fast simulation techniques like importancesampling, multilevel splitting, etc., have to be used. Though …-taileddistributions, previous fast simulation techniques forqueues with subexponential service times have been confined to theM/GI/1 queue. The …

In this paper we use Monte Carlo simulation to investigate the impact of effect size heterogeneity on the results of a …

sophisticated neural network simulation techniques is explored. In all examples considered in this paper – a bimodal distribution of …

simple and fast method for efficient importance sampling. A simulation study and empirical illustration provide some evidence …