Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2012 [Hardcover]

This book represents the refereed proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing that was held at the University of New South Wales (Australia) in February 2012. These biennial conferences are major events for Monte Carlo and the premiere event for quasi-Monte Carlo research. The proceedings include articles based on invited lectures as well as carefully selected contributed papers on all theoretical aspects and applications of Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods. The reader will be provided with information on latest developments in these very active areas. The book is an excellent reference for theoreticians and practitioners interested in solving high-dimensional computational problems arising, in particular, in finance, statistics and computer graphics.Part I Invited Articles.- Jan Baldeaux and Eckhard Platen: Computing Functionals of Square Root and Wishart Processes Under the Benchmark Approach via Exact Simulation.- Dmitriy Bilyk and Michael Lacey: The Supremum Norm of the Discrepancy Function: Recent Results and Connections.- Pierre Del Moral, Gareth W. Peters, and Christelle Verg?: An Introduction to Stochastic Particle Integration Methods: With Applications to Risk and Insurance.- Michael B. Giles: Multilevel Monte Carlo Methods.- Fred J. Hickernell, Lan Jiang, Yuewei Liu, and Art B. Owen: Guaranteed Conservative Fixed Width Confidence Intervals Via Monte Carlo Sampling.- Aicke Hinrichs: Discrepancy, Integration and Tractability.- Leszek Plaskota: Noisy Information: Optimality, Complexity, Tractability.- Part II: Tutorial.- Alexander Keller: Quasi-Monte Carlo Image Synthesis in a Nutshell.- Part III Contributed Articles.- Nico Achtsis, Ronald Cools, and Dirk Nuyens: Model.- Christoph Aistleitner and Markus Weimar: Probabilistic Star Discrepancy Bounds for Double Infinite Random Matrices.- Dmitriy Bilyk: The L2 Discrepancy of Irrational Lattices.- Thomas Daun and Stefan Heinrich: l£Ð