In my previous article, I outlined the planning stages that are performed during an XP project, with a particular emphasis on the upfront planning that is ignored in many “XP” projects. This month I ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The factorial of 5 is 120. The factorial of 10 is 3,628,800. Programmers can take one of two ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- This past week in Madrid, Spain, the next iteration of the C++ programming language, C++11, passed review by the technical standards committee. Barring unforeseen delays the official ...

We consider a system with a finite number of states, 1, 2, ⋯, S. Periodically we observe the current state of the system and perform an action, a, from a finite set A of possible actions. As a joint ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We prove that the classic policy-iteration method [Howard, R. A. 1960. Dynamic Programming and Markov Processes. MIT, Cambridge] and the ...