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The paper develops a new mathematical method of the joint signal and noise calculation at the Rice statistical distribution based on combing the maximum likelihood method and the method of moments. The calculation of the sough-for values of signal and noise is implemented by processing the sampled measurements of the analyzed Rician signal’s amplitude. The explicit equations’ system has been obtained for required signal and noise parameters and the results of its numerical solution are provided confirming the efficiency of the proposed technique. It has been shown that solving the two-parameter task by means of the proposed technique does not lead to the increase of the volume of demanded calculative resources if compared with solving the task in one-parameter approximation. An analytical solution of the task has been obtained for the particular case of small value of the signal-to-noise ratio. The paper presents the investigation of the dependence of the sought for parameters estimation accuracy and dispersion on the quantity of measurements in experimental sample. According to the results of numerical experiments, the dispersion values of the estimated sought-for signal and noise parameters calculated by means of the proposed technique change in inverse proportion to the quantity of measurements in a sample. There has been implemented a comparison of the accuracy of the soughtfor Rician parameters’ estimation by means of the proposed technique and by earlier developed version of the method of moments. The problem having been considered in the paper is meaningful for the purposes of Rician data processing, in particular, at the systems of magnetic-resonance visualization, in devices of ultrasonic visualization, at optical signals’ analysis in range-measuring systems, at radar signals’ analysis, as well as at solving many other scientific and applied tasks that are adequately described by the Rice statistical model.

Stochastic optimization is a current area of research due to significant advances in machine learning and their applications to everyday problems. In this paper, we consider two fundamentally different methods for solving the problem of stochastic optimization — online and offline algorithms. The corresponding algorithms have their qualitative advantages over each other. So, for offline algorithms, it is required to solve an auxiliary problem with high accuracy. However, this can be done in a distributed manner, and this opens up fundamental possibilities such as, for example, the construction of a dual problem. Despite this, both online and offline algorithms pursue a common goal — solving the stochastic optimization problem with a given accuracy. This is reflected in the comparison of the computational complexity of the described algorithms, which is demonstrated in this paper.

The comparison of the described methods is carried out for two types of stochastic problems — convex optimization and saddles. For problems of stochastic convex optimization, the existing solutions make it possible to compare online and offline algorithms in some detail. In particular, for strongly convex problems, the computational complexity of the algorithms is the same, and the condition of strong convexity can be weakened to the condition of $\gamma$-growth of the objective function. From this point of view, saddle point problems are much less studied. Nevertheless, existing solutions allow us to outline the main directions of research. Thus, significant progress has been made for bilinear saddle point problems using online algorithms. Offline algorithms are represented by just one study. In this paper, this example demonstrates the similarity of both algorithms with convex optimization. The issue of the accuracy of solving the auxiliary problem for saddles was also worked out. On the other hand, the saddle point problem of stochastic optimization generalizes the convex one, that is, it is its logical continuation. This is manifested in the fact that existing results from convex optimization can be transferred to saddles. In this paper, such a transfer is carried out for the results of the online algorithm in the convex case, when the objective function satisfies the $\gamma$-growth condition.

This study presents a methodology for assessing the functioning of complex systems, taking into account the type of distribution of indicators characterizing the functioning of structural elements of such a system operating under conditions of uncertainty. Unlike previous studies, the work integrates the identification of the type of indicator distribution with their Bayesian assessment, taking into account the norms characterizing the required results of the functioning of the structural elements of the system. The type of distribution and its characteristics provide more complete information about the properties of an object and their consideration affects the results of evaluating the functioning of elements of complex systems, especially in cases of the presence of “heavy” tails characteristic of a number of socio-economic processes and systems. It is shown that it is advisable to identify the type of distribution based on modified data due to the exclusion of the best trend in statistical characteristics. The determination of the best type of distribution is carried out according to the Kolmogorov – Smirnov agreement criterion, which showed the best (according to the available sample) statistical estimates compared to other criteria or a mixture of them. The obtained type of distribution is used in the probabilistic assessment of the results of the functioning of subsystem elements based on Bayesian intelligent technologies that successfully operate in conditions of uncertainty, and which make it possible to present such results on numerical and linguistic scales in a general hierarchical information model. The methodology was tested using the example of the object subsystem (G.B.Kleiner’s spatio-temporal classification) of the economic subsystem of the Tula region, considered as a complex system — a socio-ecological-economic system. The volume of gross domestic product by region in six sections of the all-Russian classifier of economic activities (sections A, B, C, D, E) was used as assessment indicators. In some cases, it is possible to reduce the level of uncertainty in the estimates of indicators.; to obtain estimates that are more stringent than the norm, which ultimately leads to the conclusion that the use of the distribution type in the formation of probabilistic estimates of indicators of structural elements of complex systems makes it possible to justify their correct application within the framework of the concept of evidence-based modeling.