New Formulations for Optimization under Stochastic Dominance Constraints

  • Authors:
  • James Luedtke

  • Affiliations:
  • jrluedt1@wisc.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Stochastic dominance constraints allow a decision maker to manage risk in an optimization setting by requiring his or her decision to yield a random outcome which stochastically dominates a reference random outcome. We present new integer and linear programming formulations for optimization under first- and second-order stochastic dominance constraints, respectively. These formulations are more compact than existing formulations, and relaxing integrality in the first-order formulation yields a second-order formulation, demonstrating the tightness of this formulation. We also present a specialized branching strategy and heuristics which can be used with the new first-order formulation. Computational tests illustrate the potential benefits of the new formulations.