автор: Reuven Y. Rubinstein

Reuven Y. Rubinstein, DSc, is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He has served as a consultant at numerouslarge-scale organizations, such as IBM, Motorola, and NEC. Theauthor of over 100 articles and six books, Dr. Rubinstein is alsothe inventor of the popular score-function method in simulationanalysis and generic cross-entropy methods for combinatorialoptimization and counting. Dirk P. Kroese, Ph D, is Senior Lecturer in Statistics inthe Department of Mathematics at The University of Queensland, Australia. He has published over fifty articles in a wide range ofareas in applied probability and statistics, including Monte Carlomethods, cross-entropy, randomized algorithms, tele-traffic theory, reliability, computational statistics, applied probability, andstochastic modeling.