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Some fields of research initiated by I. N. Kovalenko and used in joint articles with the author are reviewed. These are: method of artificial regeneration points, asymptotic insensitivity, Monte Carlo method, variance reduction methods, principle of monotone failures.

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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 3, pp. 101–108, May–June 2010.

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Kuznetsov, N.Y. On some fields of research initiated by academician I. N. Kovalenko. Cybern Syst Anal 46, 436–442 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-010-9218-x

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