Monte Carlo methods for value-at-risk and conditional value-at-risk: a review

LJ Hong, Z Hu, G Liu - ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Value-at-risk (VaR) and conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) are two widely used risk measures
of large losses and are employed in the financial industry for risk management purposes. In …

Solving chance-constrained problems via a smooth sample-based nonlinear approximation

A Peña-Ordieres, JR Luedtke, A Wächter - SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2020 - SIAM
We introduce a new method for solving nonlinear continuous optimization problems with
chance constraints. Our method is based on a reformulation of the probabilistic constraint as …

An inner-outer approximation approach to chance constrained optimization

A Geletu, A Hoffmann, M Kloppel, P Li - SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2017 - SIAM
Nonlinear chance constrained optimization (CCOPT) problems are known to be difficult to
solve. This work proposes a smooth approximation approach consisting of an inner and an …

Learning-based robust optimization: Procedures and statistical guarantees

LJ Hong, Z Huang, H Lam - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Robust optimization (RO) is a common approach to tractably obtain safeguarding solutions
for optimization problems with uncertain constraints. In this paper, we study a statistical …

Optimal stochastic coordinated beamforming for wireless cooperative networks with CSI uncertainty

Y Shi, J Zhang, KB Letaief - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transmit optimization and resource allocation for wireless cooperative networks with
channel state information (CSI) uncertainty are important but challenging problems in terms …

Flow shop scheduling with human–robot collaboration: a joint chance-constrained programming approach

D Wang, J Zhang - International Journal of Production Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Human–robot collaboration has been incorporated into production and assembly processes
to promote system flexibility, changeability and adaptability. However, it poses new …

Chance-constrained multiple bin packing problem with an application to operating room planning

S Wang, J Li, S Mehrotra - INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the chance-constrained bin packing problem, with an application to hospital
operating room planning. The bin packing problem allocates items of random sizes that …

A stochastic approximation method for approximating the efficient frontier of chance-constrained nonlinear programs

R Kannan, JR Luedtke - Mathematical Programming Computation, 2021 - Springer
We propose a stochastic approximation method for approximating the efficient frontier of
chance-constrained nonlinear programs. Our approach is based on a bi-objective viewpoint …

A novel multi-objective mutation flower pollination algorithm for the optimization of industrial enterprise R&D investment allocation

Y Song, K Zhang, X Hong, X Li - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrial enterprises are the main body of national scientific and technological innovation
activities, and the improvement of their research and development (R&D) output capacity …

An augmented Lagrangian decomposition method for chance-constrained optimization problems

X Bai, J Sun, X Zheng - INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Joint chance-constrained optimization problems under discrete distributions arise frequently
in financial management and business operations. These problems can be reformulated as …