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IOR
2006
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Robust One-Period Option Hedging
The paper considers robust optimization to cope with uncertainty about the stock return process in one period option hedging problems. The robust approach relates portfolio choice ...
Frank Lutgens, Jos F. Sturm, Antoon Kolen
CORR
2006
Springer
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Inconsistent parameter estimation in Markov random fields: Benefits in the computation-limited setting
Consider the problem of joint parameter estimation and prediction in a Markov random field: i.e., the model parameters are estimated on the basis of an initial set of data, and th...
Martin J. Wainwright
CCE
2006
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Parameter estimation in continuous-time dynamic models using principal differential analysis
Principal differential analysis (PDA) is an alternative parameter estimation technique for differential equation models in which basis functions (e.g., B-splines) are fitted to dy...
A. A. Poyton, M. S. Varziri, K. B. McAuley, P. J. ...
CAD
2006
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Robust parameter synthesis for planar higher pair mechanical systems
We present a parameter synthesis algorithm for planar, higher pair mechanical systems. The input is a parametric model of a mechanical system (part shapes and configurations) with...
Min-Ho Kyung, Elisha Sacks
BMCBI
2006
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A method for estimation of elasticities in metabolic networks using steady state and dynamic metabolomics data and linlog kineti
Background: Dynamic modeling of metabolic reaction networks under in vivo conditions is a crucial step in order to obtain a better understanding of the (dis)functioning of living ...
I. Emrah Nikerel, Wouter A. van Winden, Walter M. ...
ICGA
2008
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Cross-Entropy for Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Recently, Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has become a popular approach for intelligent play in games. Amongst others, it is successfully used in most state-of-the-art Go programs....
Guillaume Chaslot, Mark H. M. Winands, Istvan Szit...
BMCBI
2006
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Optimized Particle Swarm Optimization (OPSO) and its application to artificial neural network training
Background: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an established method for parameter optimization. It represents a population-based adaptive optimization technique that is influen...
Michael Meissner, Michael Schmuker, Gisbert Schnei...
BMCBI
2006
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Spectral embedding finds meaningful (relevant) structure in image and microarray data
Background: Accurate methods for extraction of meaningful patterns in high dimensional data have become increasingly important with the recent generation of data types containing ...
Brandon W. Higgs, Jennifer W. Weller, Jeffrey L. S...
AUTOMATICA
2006
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Stability regions in the parameter space: D-decomposition revisited
The challenging problem in linear control theory is to describe the total set of parameters (controller coefficients or plant characteristics) which provide stability of a system....
Elena N. Gryazina, Boris T. Polyak
ALMOB
2006
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14 years 5 days ago
Pattern statistics on Markov chains and sensitivity to parameter estimation
Background: In order to compute pattern statistics in computational biology a Markov model is commonly used to take into account the sequence composition. Usually its parameter mu...
Grégory Nuel