This paper attempts to analyze the degree to which the telecommunications sector is regarded as a critical infrastructure at the European level. Taking into account a new categorization of telecommunications applications and infrastructure perspectives, a new matrix-based classification method is proposed to clarify the protection approaches of policy makers and telecommunications asset owners ...

Introduction All of us in experimental science are concerned with scientific rigor and most journals have a policy on statistical analysis and data representation to ensure that issues of experimental design can be reviewed thoroughly. The policy at the Journal of Neuroscience is to require full reporting of statistical analyses and we ask our reviewers to report on the adequacy of those analys...

This study proposes a two-phase, algebraic approach to resolve the rotation cycle time and number of shipments for a multi-item, economic production quantity (EPQ) model with a random defective rate. A conventional method for solving a multi-item EPQ model is to use differential calculus and Hessian matrix equations on system cost function to prove convexity first and then derive an optimal pro...

this article analyses the effects of foreign exchange commitment and exchange rate unification policies on iran’s non-oil exports during the last three decades. in addition, the effects of these policies on non-oil exports have empirically been estimated. for this purpose, an export supply model was estimated using the econometrics technique of auto regressive distributed lag (ardl) and reliabl...

There has been a recent focus in reinforcement learning on addressing continuous state and action problems by optimizing parameterized policies. PI is a recent example of this approach. It combines a derivation from first principles of stochastic optimal control with tools from statistical estimation theory. In this paper, we consider PI as a member of the wider family of methods which share th...

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