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Abstract: With its inherent causal reasoning and superior capacity for handling uncertainty, the belief rule base (BRB) has been widely applied in complex systems modeling. As a generalization of ...

Abstract: This paper proposes using collisions of Pareto random variables in traffic analysis and in generating fictitious network traffic that follows various Pareto distributions. Pareto ...

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The Random123 library is a collection of counter-based random number generators ( "CBRNGs") for CPUs (C and C++) and GPUs (CUDA and OpenCL), as described in Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3 ...

A decrease in processing speed is associated with several antecedents, including old age, a decline in fine motor function, and the deterioration of brain connectivity. Patient processing speed is a ...