Stochastic (from the Greek "Στόχος" for "aim" or "guess") means random. A stochastic process's one whose behavior's non-deterministic in that a system's subsequent state's determined both by the process's predictable actions and by a random element. Stochastic crafts are complex systems whose practitioners, even if experts, acknowledge that outcomes result from both known and unknown causes. Examples are warfare, meteorology, and rhetoric, where success and failure… (More on Stochastic)