| Article ID: | iaor20172762 |
| Volume: | 78 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Start Page Number: | 1251 |
| End Page Number: | 1263 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2017 |
| Journal: | Automation and Remote Control |
| Authors: | Kan Yu, Vasileva S |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
We propose a method for solving quantile optimization problems with a loss function that depends on a vector of small random parameters. This method is based on using a model linearized with respect to the random vector instead of the original nonlinear loss function. We show that in first approximation, the quantile optimization problem reduces to a minimax problem where the uncertainty set is a kernel of a probability measure.