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WSC
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Monte Carlo methods for valuation of ratchet Equity Indexed Annuities
Equity Indexed Annuities (EIAs) are popular insurance contracts. EIAs provide the insured with a guaranteed accumulation rate on their premium at maturity. In addition, the insure...
Ming-hua Hsieh, Yu-fen Chiu
WSC
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Revisit of stochastic mesh method for pricing American options
We revisit the stochastic mesh method for pricing American options, from a conditioning viewpoint, rather than the importance sampling viewpoint of Broadie and Glasserman (1997). ...
Guangwu Liu, L. Jeff Hong
TIP
2011
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15 years 1 months ago
A New Hybrid Method for Image Approximation Using the Easy Path Wavelet Transform
The Easy Path Wavelet Transform (EPWT) has recently been proposed by one of the authors as a tool for sparse representations of bivariate functions from discrete data, in particul...
Gerlind Plonka, Stefanie Tenorth, Daniela Rosca
SIAMSC
2010
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15 years 27 days ago
Quasi-Newton Methods on Grassmannians and Multilinear Approximations of Tensors
In this paper we proposed quasi-Newton and limited memory quasi-Newton methods for objective functions defined on Grassmannians or a product of Grassmannians. Specifically we defin...
Berkant Savas, Lek-Heng Lim
SIAMJO
2011
15 years 19 days ago
Adaptive Multilevel Inexact SQP Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization
We present a class of inexact adaptive multilevel trust-region SQP-methods for the efficient solution of optimization problems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations...
J. Carsten Ziems, Stefan Ulbrich