In this article, we present three smoothed functional (SF) algorithms for simulation optimization. While one of these estimates only the gradient by...

Sensitivity analysis has become a natural step in the uncertainty analysis framework. As there is no general sensitivity measure that would capture a...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is deadly if not found early. Any protocols developed for screening and surveillance and any policy decisions regarding the a...

Simulation of Internet worms (and other malware) requires tremendous computing resources when every packet generated by the phenomena is modeled indi...

We present a simple, deterministic mathematical model for the spread of randomly scanning and bandwidth-saturating Internet worms. Such worms include...