作者：Lin, CR; Buongiorno, J
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Markov decision process (MDP) models were effective in analyzing forest management policies. Even the simplest standard results gave useful insights into forest ecology, such as how landscape diversity is shaped by natural catastrophes, and how forests mature through successional phases. The methods were also useful to predict the effects of different management policies on ecological and economic criteria. Optimization augmented the usefulness of the approach, suggesting that income from Wisc...
作者：Dey, D; Sarkar, S; De, P
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University System of Ohio; University of Dayton
摘要：In recent years, there has been a proliferation of database systems in all types of organizations. In many cases, these databases are developed in different departments and maintained autonomously. Much is to be gained, however, if databases across departments, divisions, or even organizations can be related to one another. One main problem of relating data stored in different databases is the differences in their representation of real-world entities, such as the use of different identifiers ...
