Title
Optimization with Multivariate Conditional Value-at-Risk Constraints.
Abstract
For many decision-making problems under uncertainty, it is crucial to develop risk-averse models and specify the decision makers' risk preferences based on multiple stochastic performance measures (or criteria). Incorporating such multivariate preference rules into optimization models is a fairly recent research area. Existing studies focus on extending univariate stochastic dominance rules to the multivariate case. However, enforcing multivariate stochastic dominance constraints can often be overly conservative in practice. As an alternative, we focus on the widely applied risk measure conditional value-at-risk (CVaR), introduce a multivariate CVaR relation, and develop a novel optimization model with multivariate CVaR constraints based on polyhedral scalarization. To solve such problems for finite probability spaces, we develop a cut generation algorithm, where each cut is obtained by solving a mixed-integer problem. We show that a multivariate CVaR constraint reduces to finitely many univariate CVaR constraints, which proves the finite convergence of our algorithm. We also show that our results can be naturally extended to a wider class of coherent risk measures. The proposed approach provides a flexible and computationally tractable way of modeling preferences in stochastic multicriteria decision making. We conduct a computational study for a budget allocation problem to illustrate the effect of enforcing multivariate CVaR constraints and demonstrate the computational performance of the proposed solution methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1287/opre.2013.1186
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
stochastic dominance,conditional value at risk
Econometrics,Mathematical optimization,Multiple criteria,Multivariate statistics,Stochastic dominance,Univariate,Risk measure,Mathematics,Expected shortfall,CVAR
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
61
4
0030-364X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
0.79
20
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nilay Noyan118413.93
GáBor Rudolf2967.98