I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

We present an Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) approach for the multidimensional knapsack problem (MKP). We approximate the value function (a) using parametric and nonparametric methods and (b) ...

Finite horizon sequential decision problems with a "temporal von Neumann-Morgenstern utility" criterion are analyzed. This criterion, as developed in [7], is a generalization of von ...