Lookup tables and Taylor series are two common methods for interpolating between experimentally gathered data or for generating a known function such as a sine wave. This article proposes a third ...

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Aharon Ben-Tal, Marc Teboulle, Expected Utility, Penalty Functions, and Duality in Stochastic Nonlinear Programming, Management Science, Vol. 32, No. 11 (Nov., 1986 ...