In this paper, we introduce a new class of decision rules called Constant Depth Decision Rules (CDDRs) for Multistage Stochastic Convex Programs (MSCP) depending on a parame- ter Mi called the depth of the decision rules. ...

The two largest Brazilian cities, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, have declared community transmission of COVID-19 on mid March, 2020. In this study we estimated the most vulnerable areas in Brazil for COVID-19, both in terms ...

This paper presents the initial efforts towards the creation of a new corpus on the history domain. Motivated by the historians’ need to interrogate a vast material - almost 9 million words - in a non-linear way, our ...

Cachaça is a genuine and traditional Brazilian distilled liquor and its history is closely linked to the country’s cultural heritage. However, the cachaça has been facing many difficulties in its recently started legitimization ...

In this article the numerical approximation of the stochastic transport equation is considered. We propose a new computational scheme for the effective simulation of the solutions of this equation. Results on the convergence ...