Stochastic visibility in random fields
By: Shelemyahu Zacks.
Series: Lecture notes in statistics ;; 95; Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ;; v. 95.
Publisher: Springer-Verlag; Springer
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Random fields.; Visibility -- Mathematical models.
Description: Visibility problems are of interest in a wide variety of operations research and communications problems. This monograph presents an analysis of the "visibility" of one point in the plane from another given the existence of random objects which may obstruct the line of sight. The author aims to emphasize the practical issues involved and describes the algorithms discussed here. In addition, a (DOS) disk containing executable programs which implement these algorithms is provided. The author presupposes a basic familiarity with probability, statistics, and geometry, but otherwise the book is self-contained. As a result, researchers across a number of disciplines will find this account a valuable introduction to this problem.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-169) and index.