This article tries to connect two separate strands of literature concerning genetic algorithms. On the one hand, extensive research took place in mathematics and closely related sciences in order to find out more about the properties of genetic algorithms as stochastic processes. On the other...

In this paper I use the theory of Markov Decision Processes to understand aspects of arranged marriages. I construct a stylized model of arranged marriages and, inter alia, I show that a decision maker's optimal marrying rule depends only on the nature of the current marriage proposal,...

This paper discusses the problem regarding the existence of optimal or nearly optimal stationary strategies for a player engaged in a nonleavable stochastic game. It is known that, for these games, player I need not have an (formula)- optimal stationary strategy even when the state space of the...

June 1999 - A regime-switching framework is used to study speculative attacks against European Monetary System currencies during 1979-93. Peria uses a regime-switching framework to study speculative attacks against European Monetary System (EMS) currencies during 1979-93. She identifies...