We address in this paper the efficient estimation of sensitivity coefficients by Monte Carlo simulations. In the context of geological performance for the risk assessment of radioactive waste repositories, a recent non-analog Monte Carlo simulation [1] based on an integral equation for the...

After a brief general overview of Monte Carlo computer simulations in statistical physics, special emphasis is placed on applications to phase transitions and critical phenomena. Here, standard simulations employing local update algorithms are severely hampered by the problem of critical slowing...

The Monte Carlo programme used for the simulation of electron transport is based on a description of the samples by a layered model. The simulation accounts for the elastic scattering of electrons in selected materials and provides results to process the experimental data. In this paper, we...

The analysis of light-rays penetrating transparent media like air and water constitutes a pertinent problem in climatic research and in the development of algorithms for the retrieval of bio-geo-chemical parameters of suspended matter and dissolved pollutants from remotely sensed ocean colour...

FLUKA is a Monte Carlo code, transporting hadron and lepton cascades from several TeV down to a few keV (thermal energies for neutrons). The code is widely employed in various applications, such as particle detector design, shielding, radiation therapy, high energy physics experiments.

We show how appropriate rewiring with the aid of Metropolis Monte Carlo computational experiments can be exploited to create network topologies possessing prescribed values of the average path length (APL) while keeping the same connectivity degree and clustering coefficient distributions. Using...

This paper investigates the long-run relationship between the demand for international travel to Australia from Malaysia and a group of leading macroeconomic variables, including Malaysian income, tourism prices in Australia, transportation costs between Malaysia and Australia, and the exchange...

In recent research [B. Seo, Distribution theory for unit root tests with conditional heteroskedasticity, J. Econometrics 91 (1999) 113–144] has suggested that the examination of the unit root hypothesis in series exhibiting GARCH behaviour should proceed via joint maximum likelihood (ML)...

Strong economic growth and rapidly rising incomes in Malaysia have led to a surge in Malaysian tourist arrivals to Australia in the 1990s, prior to the currency crisis in mid-1997. The purpose of the paper is to use autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to explain the...

The purpose of this paper is to derive the asymptotic distributions of some Lagrange Multiplier (LM) tests for unit roots in time series models in the presence of missing observations, and to provide evidence on the small sample properties of these tests. LM tests for a unit root in a...