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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.
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Optimization of production allocation under price uncertainty : relating price model assumptions to decisions

Bukhari, Abdulwahab Abdullatif 05 October 2011 (has links)
Allocating production volumes across a portfolio of producing assets is a complex optimization problem. Each producing asset possesses different technical attributes (e.g. crude type), facility constraints, and costs. In addition, there are corporate objectives and constraints (e.g. contract delivery requirements). While complex, such a problem can be specified and solved using conventional deterministic optimization methods. However, there is often uncertainty in many of the inputs, and in these cases the appropriate approach is neither obvious nor straightforward. One of the major uncertainties in the oil and gas industry is the commodity price assumption(s). This paper investigates this problem in three major sections: (1) We specify an integrated stochastic optimization model that solves for the optimal production allocation for a portfolio of producing assets when there is uncertainty in commodity prices, (2) We then compare the solutions that result when different price models are used, and (3) We perform a value of information analysis to estimate the value of more accurate price models. The results show that the optimum production allocation is a function of the price model assumptions. However, the differences between models are minor, and thus the value of choosing the “correct” price model, or similarly of estimating a more accurate model, is small. This work falls in the emerging research area of decision-oriented assessments of information value. / text
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[en] PORTFOLIO SELECTION VIA DATA-DRIVEN DISTRIBUTIONALLY ROBUST OPTIMIZATION / [pt] SELEÇÃO DE CARTEIRAS DE ATIVOS FINANCEIROS VIA DATA-DRIVEN DISTRIBUTIONALLY ROBUST OPTIMIZATION

JOAO GABRIEL FELIZARDO S SCHLITTLER 07 January 2019 (has links)
[pt] Otimização de portfólio tradicionalmente assume ter conhecimento da distribuição de probabilidade dos retornos ou pelo menos algum dos seus momentos. No entanto, é sabido que a distribuição de probabilidade dos retornos muda com frequência ao longo do tempo, tornando difícil a utilização prática de modelos puramente estatísticos, que confiam indubitavelmente em uma distribuição estimada. Em contrapartida, otimização robusta considera um completo desconhecimento da distribuição dos retornos, e por isto, buscam uma solução ótima para todas as realizações possíveis dentro de um conjunto de incerteza dos retornos. Mais recentemente na literatura, técnicas de distributionally robust optimization permitem lidar com a ambiguidade com relação à distribuição dos retornos. No entanto essas técnicas dependem da construção do conjunto de ambiguidade, ou seja, distribuições de probabilidade a serem consideradas. Neste trabalho, propomos a construção de conjuntos de ambiguidade poliédricos baseado somente em uma amostra de retornos. Nestes conjuntos, as relações entre variáveis são determinadas pelos dados de maneira não paramétrica, sendo assim livre de possíveis erros de especificação de um modelo estocástico. Propomos um algoritmo para construção do conjunto e, dado o conjunto, uma reformulação computacionalmente tratável do problema de otimização de portfólio. Experimentos numéricos mostram que uma melhor performance do modelo em comparação com benchmarks selecionados. / [en] Portfolio optimization traditionally assumes knowledge of the probability distribution of returns or at least some of its moments. However is well known that the probability distribution of returns changes over time, making difficult the use of purely statistic models which undoubtedly rely on an estimated distribution. On the other hand robust optimization consider a total lack of knowledge about the distribution of returns and therefore it seeks an optimal solution for all the possible realizations wuthin a set of uncertainties of the returns. More recently the literature shows that distributionally robust optimization techniques allow us to deal with ambiguity regarding the distribution of returns. However these methods depend on the construction of the set of ambiguity, that is, all distribution of probability to be considered. This work proposes the construction of polyhedral ambiguity sets based only on a sample of returns. In those sets, the relations between variables are determined by the data in a non-parametric way, being thus free of possible specification errors of a stochastic model. We propose an algorithm for constructing the ambiguity set, and then a computationally treatable reformulation of the portfolio optimization problem. Numerical experiments show that a better performance of the model compared to selected benchmarks.

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