Title
Efficient subset selection for the expected opportunity cost
Abstract
A lot of problems in automatic control aim at seeking top designs for discrete-event systems. In many cases, these problems are most suitable to be modeled as simulation optimization problems, and a key question for solving these problems is how to efficiently and accurately select the top designs given a limited simulation budget. This paper considers the generalized problem of selecting the top m designs from a finite set of design alternatives based on simulated outputs, subject to a constraint on the total number of samples available. The quality of the selection is measured by the expected opportunity cost, which penalizes particularly bad choices more than the slightly incorrect selections and is preferred by risk-neutral practitioners and decision makers. An efficient simulation budget allocation procedure, called E O C - m , is developed for this problem. The efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated through numerical testing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.automatica.2015.06.005
Automatica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Simulation optimization,Budget allocation,OCBA,Opportunity cost,Subset selection
Mathematical optimization,Finite set,Numerical testing,Budget allocation,Automatic control,Optimization problem,Mathematics,Opportunity cost
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
C
0005-1098
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.77
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Siyang Gao18011.83
Weiwei Chen212512.21