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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Progressive Validity Metamodel Trust Region Optimization

Thomson, Quinn Parker 26 February 2009 (has links)
The goal of this work was to develop metamodels of the MDO framework piMDO and provide new research in metamodeling strategies. The theory of existing metamodels is presented and implementation details are given. A new trust region scheme --- metamodel trust region optimization (MTRO) --- was developed. This method uses a progressive level of minimum validity in order to reduce the number of sample points required for the optimization process. Higher levels of validity require denser point distributions, but the reducing size of the region during the optimization process mitigates an increase the number of points required. New metamodeling strategies include: inherited optimal latin hypercube sampling, hybrid latin hypercube sampling, and kriging with BFGS. MTRO performs better than traditional trust region methods for single discipline problems and is competitive against other MDO architectures when used with a CSSO algorithm. Advanced metamodeling methods proved to be inefficient in trust region methods.
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Progressive Validity Metamodel Trust Region Optimization

Thomson, Quinn Parker 26 February 2009 (has links)
The goal of this work was to develop metamodels of the MDO framework piMDO and provide new research in metamodeling strategies. The theory of existing metamodels is presented and implementation details are given. A new trust region scheme --- metamodel trust region optimization (MTRO) --- was developed. This method uses a progressive level of minimum validity in order to reduce the number of sample points required for the optimization process. Higher levels of validity require denser point distributions, but the reducing size of the region during the optimization process mitigates an increase the number of points required. New metamodeling strategies include: inherited optimal latin hypercube sampling, hybrid latin hypercube sampling, and kriging with BFGS. MTRO performs better than traditional trust region methods for single discipline problems and is competitive against other MDO architectures when used with a CSSO algorithm. Advanced metamodeling methods proved to be inefficient in trust region methods.
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[en] NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS OF INTEREST RATE CURVES : MODEL SELECTION CRITERION: MODEL SELECTION CRITERIONPERFORMANCE DETERMINANT FACTORS AND BID-ASK S / [pt] ESTIMAÇÕES NÃO PARAMÉTRICAS DE CURVAS DE JUROS: CRITÉRIO DE SELEÇÃO DE MODELO, FATORES DETERMINANTES DEDESEMPENHO E BID-ASK SPREAD

ANDRE MONTEIRO DALMEIDA MONTEIRO 11 June 2002 (has links)
[pt] Esta tese investiga a estimação de curvas de juros sob o ponto de vista de métodos não-paramétricos. O texto está dividido em dois blocos. O primeiro investiga a questão do critério utilizado para selecionar o método de melhor desempenho na tarefa de interpolar a curva de juros brasileira em uma dada amostra. Foi proposto um critério de seleção de método baseado em estratégias de re-amostragem do tipo leave-k-out cross validation, onde K k £ £ 1 e K é função do número de contratos observados a cada curva da amostra. Especificidades do problema reduzem o esforço computacional requerido, tornando o critério factível. A amostra tem freqüência diária: janeiro de 1997 a fevereiro de 2001. O critério proposto apontou o spline cúbico natural -utilizado com método de ajuste perfeito aos dados - como o método de melhor desempenho. Considerando a precisão de negociação, este spline mostrou-se não viesado. A análise quantitativa de seu desempenho identificou, contudo, heterocedasticidades nos erros simulados. A partir da especificação da variância condicional destes erros e de algumas hipóteses, foi proposto um esquema de intervalo de segurança para a estimação de taxas de juros pelo spline cúbico natural, empregado como método de ajuste perfeito aos dados. O backtest sugere que o esquema proposto é consistente, acomodando bem as hipóteses e aproximações envolvidas. O segundo bloco investiga a estimação da curva de juros norte-americana construída a partir dos contratos de swaps de taxas de juros dólar-Libor pela Máquina de Vetores Suporte (MVS), parte do corpo da Teoria do Aprendizado Estatístico. A pesquisa em MVS tem obtido importantes avanços teóricos, embora ainda sejam escassas as implementações em problemas reais de regressão. A MVS possui características atrativas para a modelagem de curva de juros: é capaz de introduzir já na estimação informações a priori sobre o formato da curva e sobre aspectos da formação das taxas e liquidez de cada um dos contratos a partir dos quais ela é construída. Estas últimas são quantificadas pelo bid-ask spread (BAS) de cada contrato. A formulação básica da MVS é alterada para assimilar diferentes valores do BAS sem que as propriedades dela sejam perdidas. É dada especial atenção ao levantamento de informação a priori para seleção dos parâmetros da MVS a partir do formato típico da curva. A amostra tem freqüência diária: março de 1997 a abril de 2001. Os desempenhos fora da amostra de diversas especificações da MVS foram confrontados com aqueles de outros métodos de estimação. A MVS foi o método que melhor controlou o trade- off entre viés e variância dos erros. / [en] This thesis investigates interest rates curve estimation under non-parametric approach. The text is divided into two parts. The first one focus on which criterion to use to select the best performance method in the task of interpolating Brazilian interest rate curve. A selection criterion is proposed to measure out-of-sample performance by combining resample strategies leave-k-out cross validation applied upon the whole sample curves, where K k £ £ 1 and K is function of observed contract number in each curve. Some particularities reduce substantially the required computational effort, making the proposed criterion feasible. The data sample range is daily, from January 1997 to February 2001. The proposed criterion selected natural cubic spline, used as data perfect-fitting estimation method. Considering the trade rate precision, the spline is non-biased. However, quantitative analysis of performance determinant factors showed the existence of out-of-sample error heteroskedasticities. From a conditional variance specification of these errors, a security interval scheme is proposed for interest rate generated by perfect-fitting natural cubic spline. A backtest showed that the proposed security interval is consistent, accommodating the evolved assumptions and approximations. The second part estimate US free-for-floating interest rate swap contract curve by using Support Vector Machine (SVM), a method derived from Statistical Learning Theory. The SVM research has got important theoretical results, however the number of implementation on real regression problems is low. SVM has some attractive characteristics for interest rates curves modeling: it has the ability to introduce already in its estimation process a priori information about curve shape and about liquidity and price formation aspects of the contracts that generate the curve. The last information set is quantified by the bid-ask spread. The basic SVM formulation is changed in order to be able to incorporate the different values for bid-ask spreads, without losing its properties. Great attention is given to the question of how to extract a priori information from swap curve typical shape to be used in MVS parameter selection. The data sample range is daily, from March 1997 to April 2001. The out-of-sample performances of different SVM specifications are faced with others method performances. SVM got the better control of trade- off between bias and variance of out-of-sample errors.

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