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WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Valuation of variable annuity contracts with cliquet options in Asia markets
Variable annuities are very appealing to the investor. For example, in United States, sales volume on variable annuities grew to a record 184 billion in calendar year 2006. Howeve...
Ming-hua Hsieh
DAGM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Efficient Tracking as Linear Program on Weak Binary Classifiers
This paper demonstrates how a simple, yet effective, set of features enables to integrate ensemble classifiers in optical flow based tracking. In particular, gray value differences...
Michael Grabner, Christopher Zach, Horst Bischof
AIPS
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Probabilistic Planning with Nonlinear Utility Functions
Researchers often express probabilistic planning problems as Markov decision process models and then maximize the expected total reward. However, it is often rational to maximize ...
Yaxin Liu, Sven Koenig
WSC
2001
15 years 8 months ago
Monte Carlo simulation approach to stochastic programming
Various stochastic programmingproblemscan be formulated as problems of optimization of an expected value function. Quite often the corresponding expectation function cannot be com...
Alexander Shapiro
CORR
2007
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Bounds on the Network Coding Capacity for Wireless Random Networks
— Recently, it has been shown that the max flow capacity can be achieved in a multicast network using network coding. In this paper, we propose and analyze a more realistic mode...
Salah A. Aly, Vishal Kapoor, Jie Meng, Andreas Kla...