Programming theory is treated initially without any assumptions about the functions and with interpretation for production and activity analysis. By proof of a general theorem about optimal and ...

M4N asks: Is there a reason why functions in most (?) programming languages are designed to support any number of input parameters but only one return value? In most languages, it is possible to ...

A Markovian decision model with general state space, compact action space, and the average cost as criterion is considered. The existence of an optimal policy is shown via an optimality inequality in ...