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WSC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Estimating tranche spreads by loss process simulation
A credit derivative is a path dependent contingent claim on the aggregate loss in a portfolio of credit sensitive securities. We estimate the value of a credit derivative by Monte...
Kay Giesecke, Baeho Kim
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
CLUSTER
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Network performance model for TCP/IP based cluster computing
— A new communication model, called the PlogPT model, is proposed to predict communication performance in a commodity cluster where computing nodes communicate using TCP/IP. This...
Akihiro Nomura, Hiroya Matsuba, Yutaka Ishikawa
STOC
2012
ACM
251views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
11 years 9 months ago
Minimax option pricing meets black-scholes in the limit
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
CDC
2008
IEEE
217views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
An ensemble Kalman filtering approach to highway traffic estimation using GPS enabled mobile devices
Traffic state estimation is a challenging problem for the transportation community due to the limited deployment of sensing infrastructure. However, recent trends in the mobile pho...
Daniel B. Work, Olli-Pekka Tossavainen, Sebastien ...