In this article we discuss several alternative formulations for Stochastic Goal Programming. Only one of these models, which is a particular case of the Stochastic Programs with Recourse, is also compatible with Bayesian Decision Theory. Moreover, it is posible to approximate its solutions by means of an iterative algorithm.
Optimization problems with stochastic dominance constraints are helpful to many real-life applications. We can recall e. g., problems of portfolio selection or problems connected with energy production. The above mentioned constraints are very suitable because they guarantee a solution fulfilling partial order between utility functions in a given subsystem of the utility functions. Especially, considering (where is a system of non decreasing concave nonnegative utility functions) we obtain...
In classic data envelopment analysis models, two-stage network structures are studied in cases in which the input/output data set are deterministic. In many real applications, however, we face uncertainty. This paper proposes a two-stage network DEA model when the input/output data are stochastic. A stochastic two-stage network DEA model is formulated based on the chance-constrained programming. Linearization techniques and the assumption of single underlying factor of the data are used to construct...
In this work we describe some strategies that have been proved to be very efficient for solving the following type of scheduling problems: Assume a set of jobs is to be performed along a planning horizon by selecting one from several alternatives for doing so. Besides selecting the alternative for each job, the target consists of choosing the periods at which each component of the work will be done, such that a set of scheduling and technological constraints is satisfied. The problem is formulated...
Proximal Point Methods (PPM) can be traced to the pioneer works of Moreau [16], Martinet [14, 15] and Rockafellar [19, 20] who used as regularization function the square of the Euclidean norm. In this work, we study PPM in the context of optimization and we derive a class of such methods which contains Rockafellar's result. We also present a less stringent criterion to the acceptance of an approximate solution to the subproblems that arise in the inner loops of PPM. Moreover, we introduce a new...
In the paper, some sufficient optimality conditions for strict minima of order in constrained nonlinear mathematical programming problems involving (locally Lipschitz) -convex functions of order are presented. Furthermore, the concept of strict local minimizer of order is also used to state various duality results in the sense of Mond-Weir and in the sense of Wolfe for such nondifferentiable optimization problems.
This paper deals with continuous-time Markov decision processes with the unbounded transition rates under the strong average cost criterion. The state and action spaces are Borel spaces, and the costs are allowed to be unbounded from above and from below. Under mild conditions, we first prove that the finite-horizon optimal value function is a solution to the optimality equation for the case of uncountable state spaces and unbounded transition rates, and that there exists an optimal deterministic...
We are concerned with two-level optimization problems called strongweak Stackelberg problems, generalizing the class of Stackelberg problems in the strong and weak sense. In order to handle the fact that the considered two-level optimization problems may fail to have a solution under mild assumptions, we consider a regularization involving ε-approximate optimal solutions in the lower level problems. We prove the existence of optimal solutions for such regularized problems and present some approximation...