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Abstract: The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), manifested through the specifications established by the O-RAN Alliance, stands ready to transform the telecommunications ecosystem. In particular, the ...

Abstract: With an upward trend for use in real-world problems of high uncertainty, the field of simulation optimization (SO) is evolving to aid in finding near-optimal solutions more rapidly and ...

People have long asked whether the world they experience is fundamentally real or the product of a simulation, a question often framed today as the simulation hypothesis. A new paper examines a ...

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