Robert L. Smith

n the early 1980s, the electronic industry began developing a new medium for commercial recordings. For nearly 30 years the 33 1/3-RPM vinyl "long play" album had been king of recorded music. The LP had weathered challenges from the defunct 8-track stereo cartridge and the standard audiocassette....

MATHEMATICS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH Vol. 15, No. August 1990 n-iiMd in U.S.A. ON-LINE OPTIMIZATION OF SIMULATED MARKOVIAN PROCESSES* G. CH. PFLUG Unirersity of Vienna Let {Z„) be a Markovian process, the transition of which depends on a control parameter X. Let fi^ be its invariant law. It is...