The knowledge of the climatic behavior especially that one of semi-arid regions is required to optimize the management of water resources. Here climate variability is directly related to water resources that are of a high socio-economic and environmental significance. This work deals mainly with...

For consideration of structural design of buildings and infrastructure in Australia, this paper presents hazard modelling and mapping of extreme wind gusts under the current climate and likely future climate change. Statistical and probabilistic approaches are applied to analyse the daily...

We give an <Emphasis FontCategory="SansSerif">O(n <Superscript>2</Superscript>) time algorithm to find the population variance of tour costs over the solution space of the n city symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The algorithm has application in both the stochastic case, where the problem is specified in terms of edge costs which are pairwise...</superscript></emphasis>

This paper considers the problem of searching for good second-order multiple recursive generators (MRGs) with long period and good lattice structure. An adaptive genetic algorithm with reversals is proposed. The proposed algorithm is compared with forward/backward and random methods, and its...

We consider different models of stochastic dissipative equations and theoretically compute the probability distribution functions (actually the associated large deviation functions) of the time averaged injected power required to sustain a nontrivial stationary state. We discuss the results and...