Dans le monde économique, les contrats d'options sont très utilisés car ils permettent de se couvrir contre les aléas et les risques dus aux fluctuations des prix des actifs sous-jacents. La détermination du prix de ces contrats est d'une grande importance pour les investisseurs.Dans cette thèse, on s'intéresse aux problèmes d'évaluation des options, en particulier les options Européennes et Quanto sur un actif financier dont le prix est modélisé en multi dimensions par un modèle de diffusion-saut à volatilité stochastique avec sauts (1er cas considère la volatilité sans sauts, dans le 2ème cas les sauts sont pris en compte, finalement dans le 3ème cas, l'actif sous-jacent est sans saut et la volatilité suit un CEV modèle sans saut). Ce modèle permet de mieux prendre en compte certains phénomènes observés dans les marchés. Nous développons des méthodes numériques qui déterminent les valeurs des prix de ces options. On présentera d'abord le modèle qui s'écrit sous la forme d'un système d'équations intégro-différentielles stochastiques "EIDS", et on étudiera l'existence et l'unicité de la solution de ce modèle en fonction de ses coefficients, puis on établira le lien entre le calcul du prix de l'option et la résolution de l'équation Intégro-différentielle partielle (EIDP). Ce lien, qui est basé sur la notion des générateurs infinitésimaux, nous permet d'utiliser différentes méthodes numériques pour l'évaluation des options considérées. Nous introduisons alors l'équation variationnelle associée aux EIDP et démontrons qu'elle admet une unique solution dans un espace de Sobolev avec poids en s'inspirant des travaux de Zhang [106].Nous nous concentrons ensuite sur l'approximation numérique du prix de l'option en considérant le problème dans un domaine borné, et nous utilisons pour la résolution numérique la méthode des éléments finis de type (P1), et un schéma d'Euler-Maruyama, pour se servir, d'une part de la méthode de différences finies en temps, et d'autre part de la méthode de Monté Carlo et la méthode Quasi Monte Carlo. Pour cette dernière méthode nous avons utilisé les suites de Halton afin d'améliorer la vitesse de convergence.Nous présenterons une étude comparative des différents résultats numériques obtenus dans plusieurs cas différents afin d'étudier la performance et l'efficacité des méthodes utilisées. / In the modern economic world, the options contracts are used because they allow to hedge against the vagaries and risks refers to fluctuations in the prices of the underlying assets. The determination of the price of these contracts is of great importance for investors.We are interested in problems of options pricing, actually the European and Quanto options on a financial asset. The price of that asset is modeled by a multi-dimentional jump diffusion with stochastic volatility. Otherwise, the first model considers the volatility as a continuous process and the second model considers it as a jump process. Finally in the 3rd model, the underlying asset is without jump and volatility follows a model CEV without jump. This model allow better to take into account some phenomena observed in the markets. We develop numerical methods that determine the values of prices for these options. We first write the model as an integro-differential stochastic equations system "EIDS", of which we study existence and unicity of solutions. Then we relate the resolution of PIDE to the computation of the option value. This link, which is based on the notion of infinitesimal generators, allows us to use different numerical methods. We therefore introduce the variational equation associated with the PIDE, and drawing on the work of Zhang [106], we show that it admits a unique solution in a weights Sobolev space We focus on the numerical approximation of the price of the option, by treating the problem in a bounded domain. We use the finite elements method of type (P1), and the scheme of Euler-Maruyama, for this serve, on the one hand the finite differences method in time, and on the other hand the method of Monte Carlo and the Quasi Monte Carlo method. For this last method we use of Halton sequences to improve the speed of convergence.We present a comparative study of the different numerical results in many different cases in order to investigate the performance and effectiveness of the used methods.

In this dissertation, we consider the Hull-White term structure problem with the boundary value condition given as the payoff of a European bond option. We restrict ourselves to the case where the parameters of the Hull-White model are strictly positive constants and from the risk neutral valuation formula, we first derive simple closed–form expression for pricing European bond option in the Hull-White extended Vasicek model framework. As the European option can be exercised only on the maturity date, we then examine the case of early exercise opportunity commonly called American option. With the analytic representation of American bond option being very hard to handle, we are forced to resort to numerical experiments. To do it excellently, we transform the Hull-White term structure equation into the diffusion equation and we first solve it through implicit, explicit and Crank-Nicolson (CN) difference methods. As these standard finite difference methods (FDMs) require truncation of the domain from infinite to finite one, which may deteriorate the computational efficiency for American bond option, we try to build a CN method over an unbounded domain. We introduce an exact artificial boundary condition in the pricing boundary value problem to reduce the original to an initial boundary problem. Then, the CN method is used to solve the reduced problem. We compare our performance with standard FDMs and the results through illustration show that our method is more efficient and accurate than standard FDMs when we price American bond option. / Mathematical Sciences / (M.Sc. (Mathematics))

The present dissertation develops an invariant framework for 3D gesture comparison studies. 3D gesture comparison without Lagrangian models is challenging not only because of the lack of prediction provided by physics, but also because of a dual geometry representation, spatial dimensionality and non-linearity associated to 3D-kinematics. In 3D spaces, it is difficult to compare curves without an alignment operator since it is likely that discrete curves are not synchronized and do not share a common point in space. One has to assume that each and every single trajectory in the space is unique. The common answer is to assert the similitude between two or more trajectories as estimating an average distance error from the aligned curves, provided that the alignment operator is found. In order to avoid the alignment problem, the method uses differential geometry for position and orientation curves. Differential geometry not only reduces the spatial dimensionality but also achieves view invariance. However, the nonlinear signatures may be unbounded or singular. Yet, it is shown that pattern recognition between intrinsic signatures using correlations is robust for position and orientation alike. A new mapping for orientation sequences is introduced in order to treat quaternion and Euclidean intrinsic signatures alike. The new mapping projects a 4D-hyper-sphere for orientations onto a 3D-Euclidean volume. The projection uses the quaternion invariant distance to map rotation sequences into 3D-Euclidean curves. However, quaternion spaces are sectional discrete spaces. The significance is that continuous rotation functions can be only approximated for small angles. Rotation sequences with large angle variations can only be interpolated in discrete sections. The current dissertation introduces two multi-scale approaches that improve numerical stability and bound the signal energy content of the intrinsic signatures. The first is a multilevel least squares curve fitting method similar to Haar wavelet. The second is a geodesic distance anisotropic kernel filter. The methodology testing is carried out on 3D-gestures for obstetrics training. The study quantitatively assess the process of skill acquisition and transfer of manipulating obstetric forceps gestures. The results show that the multi-scale correlations with intrinsic signatures track and evaluate gesture differences between experts and trainees.

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