Abbreviations and Acronyms
| BMC | basic Monte Carlo |
| BME | basic MinxEnt |
| cdf | cumulative distribution function |
| CAP-RECAP | capture-recapture |
| CE | cross-entropy |
| CMC | crude Monte Carlo |
| CNF | conjunctive normal form |
| DNF | disjunctive normal form |
| ECM | exponential change of measure |
| FPAUS | fully polynomial almost uniform sampler |
| FPRAS | fully polynomial randomized approximation scheme |
| HMC | hanging edges Monte Carlo |
| IME | indicator MinxEnt |
| iid | independent and identically distributed |
| MCMC | Markov chain Monte Carlo |
| MDP | Markov decision process |
| MinxEnt | minimum cross-entropy |
| OSLA | one-step-look-ahead |
 SLA |
 -step-look-ahead |
| probability density function (both discrete and continuous) | |
| PMC | permutation Monte Carlo |
| RE | relative error |
| RL | reinforced learning |
| SA | stochastic approximation |
| SAT | satisfiability (problem) |
| SAW | self-avoiding walk |
| SE | stochastic enumeration |
| SIS | sequential importance sampling |
| SMC | sequential Monte Carlo |
| TSP | traveling salesman problem |
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