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WSC
2000
15 years 8 months ago
Quasi-Monte Carlo methods in cash flow testing simulations
What actuaries call cash flow testing is a large-scale simulation pitting a company's current policy obligation against future earnings based on interest rates. While life co...
Michael G. Hilgers
SAC
2006
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A new method of generating synchronizable test sequences that detect output-shifting faults based on multiple UIO sequences
The objective of testing is to determine the conformance between a system and its specification. When testing distributed systems, the existence of multiple testers brings out the...
Kai Chen, Fan Jiang, Chuan-dong Huang
SIAMJO
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
A Second Derivative SQP Method: Global Convergence
Abstract. Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods form a class of highly efficient algorithms for solving nonlinearly constrained optimization problems. Although second deri...
Nicholas I. M. Gould, Daniel P. Robinson
CDC
2010
IEEE
136views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Pathologies of temporal difference methods in approximate dynamic programming
Approximate policy iteration methods based on temporal differences are popular in practice, and have been tested extensively, dating to the early nineties, but the associated conve...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas
CDC
2010
IEEE
167views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Numerical methods for the optimization of nonlinear stochastic delay systems, and an application to internet regulation
The Markov chain approximation method is an effective and widely used approach for computing optimal values and controls for stochastic systems. It was extended to nonlinear (and p...
Harold J. Kushner