Lectures on Stochastic Programming: Modeling and Theory

In Lectures on Stochastic Programming: Modeling and Theory, Second Edition, the authors introduce new material to reflect recent developments in stochastic programming, including: an analytical description of the tangent and normal cones of chance constrained sets; analysis of optimality conditions applied to nonconvex problems; a discussion of the stochastic dual dynamic programming method; an extended discussion of law invariant coherent risk measures and their Kusuoka representations; and in-depth analysis of dynamic risk measures and concepts of time consistency, including several new results.

Audience: This book is intended for researchers working on theory and applications of optimization. It also is suitable as a text for advanced graduate courses in optimization.

Contents: List of Notations; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Stochastic Programming Models; Chapter 2: Two-Stage Problems; Chapter 3: Multistage Problems; Chapter 4: Optimization Models with Probabilistic Constraints; Chapter 5: Statistical Inference; Chapter 6: Risk Averse Optimization; Chapter 7: Background Material; Chapter 8: Bibliographical Remarks; Bibliography; Index.