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WSC
2008
14 years 5 days ago
Efficient tail estimation for sums of correlated lognormals
Our focus is on efficient estimation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals. This problem is motivated by the tail analysis of portfolios of assets driven by corre...
Jose Blanchet, Sandeep Juneja, Leonardo Rojas-Nand...
WSC
2000
13 years 11 months ago
A real options design for quality control charts
We develop a financial model for a manufacturing process where quality can be affected by an assignable cause. We evaluate the options associated with applying a statistical proce...
Harriet Black Nembhard, Leyuan Shi, Mehmet Aktan
WSC
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling Compressed Full-Motion Video
This paper presents a general approach to modeling VBR (variable bit rate) compressed full-motion video. The salient feature of such video is the existence of scenes. Scene struct...
Benjamin Melamed
SIAMJO
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
The Sample Average Approximation Method for Stochastic Discrete Optimization
In this paper we study a Monte Carlo simulation based approach to stochastic discrete optimization problems. The basic idea of such methods is that a random sample is generated and...
Anton J. Kleywegt, Alexander Shapiro, Tito Homem-d...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Reducing the run-time of MCMC programs by multithreading on SMP architectures
The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Mont...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, A. H. Bhal...