Recently, the importance of correctly designed computational experiments for testing algorithms has been a subject of extended discussions. Whenever real-world data is lacking, generated data sets provide a substantive methodological tool for experiments. Focused research questions need to base...

Assembly line balancing is a well-known and extensively researched decision problem which arises when assembly line production systems are designed and operated. A large variety of real-world problem variations and elaborate solution methods were developed and presented in the academic...

This paper investigates, in a simple risk-sharing framework, the extent to which the incompleteness of contracts could be attributed to the complexity costs associated with the writing and the implementation of contracts. We show that, given any measure of complexity in a very general class, it...

Information measures have been used in the context of nonlinear systems presenting abrupt complexity changes and related to nonlinear time series analysis. In this study, complexity measures such as Shannon entropy, q-entropy and their associated divergences have been added to a robust speech...

Estimation of complexity is of great interest in nonlinear signal and system analysis. Several complexity measures have been proposed: Lyapunov exponents, Lempel and Ziv, approximate entropy. In the present study, complexity measures derived from Shannon entropy,...

Considerable advances in automatic speech recognition have been made in the last decades, thanks specially to the use of hidden Markov models. In the field of speech signal analysis, different techniques have been developed. However, deterioration in the performance of the speech recognizers has...

This paper establishes monotonicity of the chi-square test statistic. As the more efficient parameter estimator is plugged into the test statistic, the degrees of freedom of the resulting chi-square test statistic monotonically increase.

Social and computer networks permeate our lives. Large networks, such as the Internet, the World Wide Web (WWW), AND wireless smartphones, have indisputable economic and social importance. These networks have non-trivial topological features, i.e., features that do not occur in simple networks...