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EOR
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Efficient estimation of large portfolio loss probabilities in t-copula models
We consider the problem of accurately measuring the credit risk of a portfolio consisting of loans, bonds and other financial assets. One particular performance measure of interes...
Joshua C. C. Chan, Dirk P. Kroese
WSC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Fast simulation of equity-linked life insurance contracts with a surrender option
In this paper, we consider equity-linked life insurance contracts that give their holder the possibility to surrender their policy before maturity. Such contracts can be valued us...
Carole Bernard, Christiane Lemieux
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 1 months ago
Fast Incremental and Personalized PageRank
In this paper, we analyze the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods for incremental computation of PageRank, personalized PageRank, and similar random walk based methods (with focus o...
Bahman Bahmani, Abdur Chowdhury, Ashish Goel
CGF
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Visibility Correlation in Direct Illumination
The visibility function in direct illumination describes the binary visibility over a light source, e.g., an environment map. Intuitively, the visibility is often strongly correla...
Petrik Clarberg, Tomas Akenine-Möller
ICCAD
1993
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Convexity-based algorithms for design centering
A new technique for design centering, and for polytope approximation of the feasible region for a design are presented. In the rst phase, the feasible region is approximated by a ...
Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Pravin M. Vaidya, Steve M. K...