Stochastic Modeling and Optimization: With Applications in Queues, Finance, and Supply Chains

ISBN-13: 9781441930651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 468 str.

David D. Yao; Hanqin Zhang; Xun Yu Zhou

Opis

This books covers the broad range of research in stochastic models and optimization. Applications presented include networks, financial engineering, production planning, and supply chain management. Each contribution is aimed at graduate students working in operations research, probability, and statistics.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"The Workshop Stochastic Models and Optimization ... in May 2001, forms the basis of the present volume. 14 papers from about 60 presentations at the workshop were selected and thoroughly revised making self-contained chapters of a book for a broad audience. It highlighted some recent advances in applied probability achieved mainly by scientists with Chinese background. ... The book seems to be very suitable for seminar studies at the graduate level." (Hans-Joachim Girlich, OR News, 25, November 2005)

Spis treści

Discrete-time Singularly Perturbed Markov Chains * Nearly Optimal Controls of Markovian Systems * Stochastic Approximation, with Applications * Performance Potential Based Optimization and Markov Decision Processes * An Interior-Point and Decomposition Approach to Stochastic Programming * Stability of General Processing Networks * Large Deviations, Long-Range Dependence, and Queues * Markowitz's World in Continuous Time, and Beyond * A Markov Chain Method for Pricing Contingent Claims * Stochastic Network Models and Optimization of a Hospital System * Optimal Airline Booking Control with Cancellations * Information Revision and Decision Making in Supply Chain Management