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.