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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299970103321

Autore

Pflug Georg Ch

Titolo

Multistage Stochastic Optimization / / by Georg Ch. Pflug, Alois Pichler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-08843-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, , 1431-8598

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Operations research

Decision making

Management science

Mathematical optimization

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Operations Research, Management Science

Optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Nested Distance -- Risk and Utility Functionals -- From Data to Models -- Time Consistency -- Approximations and Bounds -- The Problem of Ambiguity in Stochastic Optimization -- Examples.

Sommario/riassunto

Multistage stochastic optimization problems appear in many ways in finance, insurance, energy production and trading, logistics and transportation, among other areas. They describe decision situations under uncertainty and with a longer planning horizon. This book contains a comprehensive treatment of today’s state of the art in multistage stochastic optimization.  It covers the mathematical backgrounds of approximation theory as well as numerous practical algorithms and examples for the generation and handling of scenario trees. A special emphasis is put on estimation and bounding of the modeling error using novel distance concepts, on time consistency and the role of model ambiguity in the decision process. An extensive treatment of examples from electricity production, asset liability



management and inventory control concludes the book.