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WSC
2000
13 years 6 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...
SCANGIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
The Issue of Uncertainty Propagation in Spatial Decision Making
GISs give users facilities to integrate and analyze data from different sources with different scale, accuracy, resolution and quality of the original data which are the key aspect...
Rahim Ali. Abbaspour, Mahmoud Reza Delavar, Reihan...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
New Event-driven Sampling Techniques for Network Reliability Estimation
Exactly computing network reliability measures is an NPhard problem. Therefore, Monte Carlo simulation has been frequently used by network designers to obtain accurate estimates. ...
Abdullah Konak, Alice E. Smith, Sadan Kulturel-Kon...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Approximating Free Exercise Boundaries for American-Style Options Using Simulation and Optimization
Monte Carlo simulation can be readily applied to asset pricing problems with multiple state variables and possible path dependencies because convergence of Monte Carlo methods is ...
Barry R. Cobb, John M. Charnes
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Simulation-aided path planning of UAV
The problem of path planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with a tracking mission, when some a priori information about the targets and the environment is available can in s...
Farzad Kamrani, Rassul Ayani
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Approximations and control variates for pricing portfolio credit derivatives
Portfolio credit derivatives that depend on default correlation are increasingly widespread in the credit market. Valuing such products often entails Monte Carlo simulation. Howev...
Zhiyong Chen, Paul Glasserman
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Monte Carlo simulation in financial engineering
This paper reviews the use of Monte Carlo simulation in the field of financial engineering. It focuses on several interesting topics and introduces their recent development, inc...
Nan Chen, L. Jeff Hong
DATE
2010
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Digital statistical analysis using VHDL
—Variations of process parameters have an important impact on reliability and yield in deep sub micron IC technologies. One methodology to estimate the influence of these effects...
Manfred Dietrich, Uwe Eichler, Joachim Haase
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Experiments with Monte Carlo Othello
— In this paper, we report on our experiments with using Monte Carlo simulation (specifically the UCT algorithm) as the basis for an Othello playing program. Monte Carlo methods ...
Philip Hingston, Martin Masek
ISQED
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A Statistic-Based Approach to Testability Analysis
This paper presents a statistic-based approach for evaluating the testability of nodes in combinational circuits. This testability measurement is obtained via Monte Carlo simulati...
Chuang-Chi Chiou, Chun-Yao Wang, Yung-Chih Chen