Background: Although several strategies for modelling competing events in discrete event simulation (DES) exist, a methodological gap for the event-specific probabilities and distributions (ESPD) ...

Are we inhabitants of a computational construct rather than a mind-independent, “base” reality? The simulation question ...

It is not often that a comedian gives an astrophysicist goose bumps when discussing the laws of physics. But comic Chuck Nice managed to do just that in a recent episode of the podcast StarTalk. The ...

Abstract: For a systematic analysis of the indicators affecting teaching in a large-scale network and open teaching platform, random graphs and probability theory were introduced to construct a ...

In the last few years, Antarctic sea ice has been behaving erratically. Sea ice cover has been much more variable than it used to be, with anomalies lasting much longer than previously documented.