Messages routing over a network is one of the most fundamental concept in communication which requires simultaneous transmission of messages from a source to a destination. In terms of Real-Time Routing, it refers to the addition of a timing constraint in which messages should be received within...

Under the threat of earthquakes, long-term policy makers need tools to decide optimally on the economic trajectories that maximize the society welfare. Tools should be flexible and account for the consequences of earthquakes, incorporating the best estimate of their frequency and intensity. In...

Group testing is an efficient method of conducting massive tests using limited resources. We consider a group testing problem with the aim of deriving an optimal partition policy that minimizes the systematic objective, which is the weighted sum of the expected false-negative classifications,...