Stochastic Two-Stage Programming
Stochastic Programming offers models and methods for decision problems wheresome of the data are uncertain. These models have features and structural properties which are preferably exploited by SP methods within the solution process. This work contribute
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Karl Frauendorfer
Stochastic Two-Stage Programming
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Author Dr. Karl Frauendorfer Institute for Operations Research University of Zurich Moussonstr. 15 Ch-8044 Zurich
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-56097-5 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-95696-6
e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-95696-6
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PREFACE
Analysts of systems in economics, ecology, industry etc. are confronted with increasing complexity due to the progress achieved in these fields. For finding (almost) optimal decisions, analysts are faced firstly with the problem statement, secondly with the set-up of a model, and thirdly with the insertion of proper and efficient solution methods. Stochastic Programming (SP) offers models and methods that allow for application in decision problems where some of the problem data is uncertain, and known only in a probabilistic sense. SP models can be classified into single-
period models, two-stage models, models with probabilistic constraints and multiperiod models. These models are endowed with advantageous features and structural properties preferably exploited by SP methods within the solution process. This work contributes to the methodology for two-stage models within Stochastic Programming. In these models the objective function is given as an integral whose integrand depends on a random vector, on its probability measure and on a decision. The fact that the integrand is usually given implicitly as a value function of some parametric optimization problem, strongly complicates the integration with respect to the probability measure and the optimization of the associated expectation functional. The main results of this work have been derived with the intention to ease these difficulties, and are seen in chapters 2, 3. After introducing stochastic two-stage programs in chapter 1 we investigate duality relations for convex optimization problems with supply/demand and prices treated as parameters. Based on these results we state a stability criterion proving subdifferentiability of the value function under proper assumptions (chapter 2). In chapter 3 we derive bilinear approximates for the integrand of the underlying two-stage program with respect to specially shaped polytopes, socalled 'cross-simplices' (x-simplices). Employing the stability c
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