Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 618-635 (18 pages) The transmission control protocol (TCP) is a transport protocol used in the Internet. In Ott (2005), a more general ...
Markovian algorithms for estimating the global maximum or minimum of real valued functions defined on some domain $\Omega \,\, \subset \,\, \mathbb{R}^{d}$ are presented. Conditions on the search ...