are illustrated numerically for a variety of utility functions commonly used in decision theory …

common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …

. Linear Programming -- 2. Integer Programming -- 3. Theory of Graphs -- 4. Planning Networks -- 5. Game Theory -- 6. Dynamic …