This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We reconsider the classical lot-size model with the assumption that demand rate is deterministic, starts at the origin, and linearly increases ...

We're living through one of the strangest inversions in software engineering history. For decades, the goal was determinism; building systems that behave the same way every time. Now we're layering ...

This paper presents a new deterministic annealing metaheuristic for the fleet size and mix vehicle-routing problem with time windows. The objective is to service, at minimal total cost, a set of ...

Richie Etwaru, Co-founder & CEO of Mobeus, is an evangelist for the probabilistic math revolution and a pioneer in emerging technologies. For most of business history, systems followed deterministic ...

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