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Contents<br />

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />

ix<br />

1 Basic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1.1 Anumericalexample.................... 1<br />

1.1.2 Scenarioanalysis...................... 2<br />

1.1.3 Using the expected value <strong>of</strong> p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.1.4 Maximizing the expected value <strong>of</strong> the objective . . . . . 4<br />

1.1.5 TheIQ<strong>of</strong>hindsight .................... 5<br />

1.1.6 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.2 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

1.3 An Illustrative Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

1.4 <strong>Stochastic</strong> Programs: General Formulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

1.4.1 Measures and Integrals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

1.4.2 Deterministic Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

1.5 Properties <strong>of</strong> Recourse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />

1.6 Properties <strong>of</strong> Probabilistic Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />

1.7 Linear <strong>Programming</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

1.7.1 The Feasible Set and Solvability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />

1.7.2 The Simplex Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />

1.7.3 Duality Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

1.7.4 A Dual Decomposition Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

1.8 Nonlinear<strong>Programming</strong> ...................... 80<br />

1.8.1 The Kuhn–Tucker Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83<br />

1.8.2 SolutionTechniques .................... 89<br />

1.8.2.1 Cutting-plane methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

1.8.2.2 Descent methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

1.8.2.3 Penalty methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />

1.8.2.4 Lagrangian methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

1.9 Bibliographical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />

Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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