... that all uses of theMonteCarlo are for the purposes of understanding physical phenomena There are others uses of theMonteCarlomethod for purely mathematical reasons, such as the determination ... 335 Chapter What is theMonteCarlo method? TheMonteCarlomethod is a numerical solution to a problem that models objects interacting with other objects or their environment based upon ... of the stage, c) audience members prefer to sit in the middle, close to the front, etc Each one of these assumptions could then be tested through measurement and then refined TheMonteCarlo method...
... account of the major topics in MonteCarlo simulation The book is based on an undergraduate course on MonteCarlo methods given at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the University ... Intentionally Left Blank PREFACE Since the publication in 1981 of Simulation and theMonteCarlo Method, dramatic changes have taken place in the entire field of MonteCarlo simulation This long-awaited ... if the outcome of the experiment is one of the elements in A Since events are sets, we can apply the usual set operations to them For example, the event A U B, called the union of A and B, the...
... 1.15.1 Lagrangian MethodThe main components of the Lagrangian method are the Lagrange multipliers and the Lagrange function, Themethod was developed by Lagrange in 1797 for the optimization ... central limit theorem in action, consider Figure 1.2 The left part shows the pdfs of S1, , S4 for the case where the {Xi} have a U[O, distribution The right part shows the same for the Exp( 1) ... from the pdf of X and defining the indicators 2, = J { x , y ) , i = , , N The estimator d thus defined is called the crude MonteCarlo (CMC) estimator For small e the relative error of the...
... generate X from the cdf Gi 2.3.4 Acceptance-Rejection MethodThe inverse-transform and composition methods are direct methods in the sense that they deal directly with the cdf of the random variable ... return to Step The theoretical basis of the acceptance-rejection method is provided by the following theorem Theorem 2.3.1 The random variable generated according to Algorithm 2.3.5 has the desiredpdf ... general methods for generating one-dimensional random variables from a prescribed distribution We consider the inverse-transform method, the alias method, the composition method, and the acceptance-rejection...
... other words, there is no systematic “looping” As a consequence, if the graph is connected and if the stationary distribution { m , } exists which is the case when the graph is finite - then the ... ( x ) , using a) the inverse-transform method, b) the acceptance-rejection method, with G ( p ) as the proposal distribution Find the efficiency of the acceptance-rejection method for R = and ... namely, the simulation clock and the event list Finally, in Section 3.3 we further explain the ideas behind discrete-event simulation via a number of worked examples Simulation and theMonteCarlo Method, ...
... CONDITIONAL MONTECARLO 127 5.4.7.7 Permutation MonteCarlo Permutation MonteCarlo is a conditional MonteCarlo technique for network reliability estimation; see Elperin et al [9] Here the components ... further reduce the variance 5.5 STRATIFIED SAMPLING Stratified sampling is closely related to both the composition method of Section 2.3.3 and the conditional MonteCarlomethod discussed in the ... where j is the j-th complete path from the source to the sink of the network and p is the number of complete paths in the network The sample performance is nondecreasing in each of the components...
... of the sequence {GL}in the single-bridge model for the VM and VM-SCR methods at the second stage of Algorithm 5.9.1 Table 5.6 Typical evolution of the sequence { G t } for the VM and VM-SCR methods ... CONTROLLING THE VARIANCE the parameter vectors u l , , u, Because of the independence assumption, the C E problem (5.64) separates into n subproblems of the form above, and all the components of the ... = where the paths i = 1, , N are generated via g rather than f and Wi,, is the likelihood ratio of the i-th such path Returning to the estimation of e, let be the first time that either or K...
... n The nodes represent cities, and the edges represent the roads between the cities Each edge from i to j has weight or cost c i j , representing the length of the road The problem is to find the ... sense, the C E and VM methods are similar, because the C E method minimizes the Kullback-Leibler distance between g* and g 5.16 Repeat Problem 5.2 using importance sampling, where the lengths of the ... Figure 5.6 The hit-or-miss method REFERENCES 165 Further Reading The fundamental paper on variance reduction techniques is Kahn and Marshal [ 161 There are a plenty of good MonteCarlo textbooks...
... given in the same figure We can now formulate the problem of minimizing the function S(x) representing the number of times the queens can capture each other Thus S(x) is the sum of the number ... version of the Markov chain, using again the same U, this stationary chain must, at time t = 0, have coalesced with the other ones Thus, any of the m chains has at time the same distribution as the ... iterations Plot the histograms of j ( p x) and f ( 2I x) and find the sample means of these posteriors Compare them with the classical estimates d) Show that the true posterior pdf of p given the data...
... the CE method to several such problems, such as the max-cut problem and the TSP, and provide supportive numerical results on the performance of the algorithm Simulation and theMonteCarloMethod ... CHAPTER THE CROSS-ENTROPY METHOD 8.1 INTRODUCTION The cross-entropy (CE) method [3 11 is a relatively new MonteCarlo technique for both estimation and optimization In the estimation setting, the ... 1979, the S F method was rediscovered at the end of the 1980s by Glynn [4] in 1990 and independently in 1989 by Reiman and Weiss [ 121, who called it the likelihoodratio method Since then, both the...
... several applications of the CE method to combinatorial optimization, namely the max-cut, the bipartition and the TSP We demonstrate numerically the efficiency of the C E method and its fast convergence ... of edges E between the nodes, partition the nodes of the graph into two arbitrary subsets V1 and V such that the sum of 254 THE CROSS-ENTROPY METHODthe weights (costs) ctI of the edges going from ... always the same) of the solutions The Max-cut Problem with r Partitions We can readily extend the max-cut procedure to the case where the node set V is partitioned such that the sum of the total...
... counting, which is based on the MinxEnt method Below we present some background on the MinxEnt method 9.5.1 The MinxEnt Method In the standard C E method for rare-event simulation, the importance sampling ... Among them are the standard CE, exponential change of measure (ECM), and the celebrated MinxEnt method [ 171 Here we shall us a particular modification of the MinxEnt method called the PME method ... performance of the PME algorithm for such hard instances while treating the SAT counting problem 9.3 THE RARE-EVENT FRAMEWORK FOR COUNTING We start with the fundamentals of theMonteCarlomethod for...
... MonteCarlo techniques, one cannot evaluate the expected value l(u) very accurately The following analysis is based on the exponential bounds of the large deviations theory Denote by 9' and % the ... fixed 8, x, and z, the function under the integral sign in (A.22) is convex in r] This implies the convexity of L o (q ; 8) The case k = follows in exactly the same way, noting that the trace t r ... of the probability distribution of X typically results in an exponential growth of the number of scenarios with the increase of the dimension of X Suppose, for example, that the components of the...
... units, their ranking orders in these cases are basically the same On the other hand, the ranking orders of the sensitivity indices for the overall system and each area are different From the overall ... studied The convergence criterion of the simulation is that the coefficient of variation for the system LOEE is less than 0.05 The studies were done on a computer VAX-6330 The results for these ... value in the jth area and N kj is the number of areas (3) Re-group the pints by assigning them to the nearest cluster and calculate the new cluster means by Mij kkIcLkjfli (4) where Ni is the number...
... equation of the multicarrier signal where the transition matrix An,k is defined as The cyclic prefix in the multicarrier system is a copy of the last portion of the symbol appended to the front of the ... importance sampling (SIS) algorithm is a MonteCarlomethod that is the basis for most sequential MonteCarlo filters The SIS algorithm consists in recursively estimating the required posterior density ... accuracy as a function of the SNR The performance of the proposed estimator is compared to the PCRB For βT = 10−3 , it performs close to the PCRB The gap between the PCRB and the JSCPE-MPF increases...
... as well The algorithm of the pore migration involves the determination of the direction of the motion the calculation of eventual change of the pore position in this direction Monte Carlo Simulations ... =1.0, then the effective strength of the exchange interaction depends on the number of the nearest neighbor magnetic sites Now let us see the behavior of the effective interaction depending on the ... be arranged either in the form of grain inclusions, whiskers, 566 Applications of MonteCarloMethod in Science and Engineering fibers The influence of the input parameters on the simulated microstructure...
... between the cathode (the electron emitter) and the anode (the X-ray target) When the electrons hit the target, they are decelerated hard by collisions with electrons of the target material or in the ... in the previous section, X-ray Monte- Carlo simulation is a very powerful tool for the design, optimization and the ability to evaluate the proof of concept 16 Applications of MonteCarloMethod ... defects With the Monte- Carlo simulation is it possible to simulate the scattering effects in the specimen and also the distribution of the scattered radiation on the detector If we know the intensity...
... decrease the response of photons from the other locations from the desired source - The air between the source and detector The peak efficiency is simply the ratio of the peak counts to the number ... MCNP4C2 includes the following parts: - The sensitive volume of the detector - The mounting materials around detector - The entrance window or cover over the front of the detector - The shielding ... Mathematics - Physics 23 (2007) 9-14 101 Fig.1 The confguration of the HP Ge (GMX) detector Relating to the physical dimensions of the above detector the thickness of the dead layer lying at the...
... III, in the presence of stearate (SA) Using theMonteCarlo procedure described in the Materials and methods, 1000 synthetic sample sets were generated for each experimental setting and the estimated ... activity in the course of the assay in the presence of stearate (Table 1) The good fit of Model III progress curves to the experimental data supports the concept that in the presence of stearate the catalytic ... estimates were further analyzed for better implementation of the k experimental error The application of error models Pi;j in theMonteCarlo simulations has the advantage over the real error in...