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WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Fast simulation of equity-linked life insurance contracts with a surrender option
In this paper, we consider equity-linked life insurance contracts that give their holder the possibility to surrender their policy before maturity. Such contracts can be valued us...
Carole Bernard, Christiane Lemieux
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Update on economic approach to simulation selection problems
This paper summarizes new analytical and empirical results for the economic approach to simulation selection problems that we introduced two years ago. The approach seeks to help ...
Stephen E. Chick, Noah Gans
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Bayesian Exponential Family PCA
Principal Components Analysis (PCA) has become established as one of the key tools for dimensionality reduction when dealing with real valued data. Approaches such as exponential ...
Shakir Mohamed, Katherine A. Heller, Zoubin Ghahra...
NAACL
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Extracting Semantic Orientations of Phrases from Dictionary
We propose a method for extracting semantic orientations of phrases (pairs of an adjective and a noun): positive, negative, or neutral. Given an adjective, the semantic orientatio...
Hiroya Takamura, Takashi Inui, Manabu Okumura
RIVF
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Simple estimate of signal to interference ratio with randomly located antennas
— We consider a propagation model under path loss, shadowing and multipath effects, where each cell are a Voronoi tessellation and the generating points of this cells are a unifo...
Laurent Decreusefond, Eduardo Ferreir, Philippe Ma...