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WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Estimating the probability of a rare event over a finite time horizon
We study an approximation for the zero-variance change of measure to estimate the probability of a rare event in a continuous-time Markov chain. The rare event occurs when the cha...
Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Gerardo Rub...
EOR
2010
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13 years 5 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
IOR
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Portfolio Credit Risk with Extremal Dependence: Asymptotic Analysis and Efficient Simulation
We consider the risk of a portfolio comprised of loans, bonds, and financial instruments that are subject to possible default. In particular, we are interested in performance meas...
Achal Bassamboo, Sandeep Juneja, Assaf J. Zeevi
BIOINFORMATICS
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Intervention in a family of Boolean networks
Motivation: Intervention in a gene regulatory network is used to avoid undesirable states, such as those associated with a disease. Several types of intervention have been studied...
Ashish Choudhary, Aniruddha Datta, Michael L. Bitt...
DCOSS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Practical Anomaly Detection Schemes in Ecological Applications of Distributed Sensor Networ
Abstract. We develop a practical, distributed algorithm to detect events, identify measurement errors, and infer missing readings in ecological applications of wireless sensor netw...
Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Aric A. Hagberg, Le...