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WSC
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Variance reduction techniques for value-at-risk with heavy-tailed risk factors
The calculation of value-at-risk (VAR) for large portfolios of complex instruments is among the most demanding and widespread computational challenges facing the financial industr...
Paul Glasserman, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shaha...
SIAMJO
2002
124views more  SIAMJO 2002»
13 years 7 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...
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting reflectance functions from complex surfaces
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
CDC
2009
IEEE
217views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
13 years 8 months ago
Discrete invasive weed optimization algorithm: application to cooperative multiple task assignment of UAVs
This paper presents a novel discrete population based stochastic optimization algorithm inspired from weed colonization. Its performance in a discrete benchmark, timecost trade-off...
Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei, Hossein Hajimirsadeghi,...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A new Particle Filtering algorithm with structurally optimal importance function
Bayesian estimation in nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems has been addressed for a long time. Among other solutions, Particle Filtering (PF) algorithms propagate in time a Mon...
Boujemaa Ait-El-Fquih, François Desbouvries