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Richard Feynman described a decision-making problem and its solution in handwritten notes, but the meaning of the notes has been a mystery for almost 50 y. We decipher the problem and solution from ...

Afforestation—establishing forests on previously non-forested land, or where forests have not existed for a long time—is one of the nature-based and cost-effective solutions for climate change ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Abstract: This paper develops a dynamic self-triggered prescribed-time optimal tracking control scheme for helicopters by employing adaptive dynamic programming (ADP ...

This research communication aims to present a curricular proposal to relate the importance of the application of optimal control theory for dynamic supply chains for industrial engineering students ...

Practice problem markup is being deprecated from Google Search in January. Dataset structured data is for Dataset Search only; it isn’t used in Google Search. Book actions continue to work in Google ...

This study develops a unified framework for optimal portfolio selection in jump–uncertain stochastic markets, contributing both theoretical foundations and computational insights. We establish the ...