Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2008

Tutorials.- Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo for Statistics.- Monte Carlo Computation in Finance.- Invited Articles.- Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Efficient Numerical Simulation.- Computational Complexity of Metropolis-Hastings Methods in High Dimensions.- On Quasi-Monte Carlo Rules Achieving Higher Order Convergence.- Sensitivity Estimates for Compound Sums.- New Perspectives on (0,)-Sequences.- Variable Subspace Sampling and Multi-level Algorithms.- Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms: Theory and Practice.- MINT - New Features and New Results.- Contributed Articles.- Recursive Computation of Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk using MC and QMC.- Adaptive Monte Carlo Algorithms Applied to Heterogeneous Transport Problems.- Efficient Simulation of Light-Tailed Sums: an Old-Folk Song Sung to a Faster New Tune....- Distribution of Digital Explicit Inversive Pseudorandom Numbers and Their Binary Threshold Sequence.- Extensions of Fibonacci Lattice Rules.- Efficient Search for Two-Dimensional Rank-1 Lattices with Applications in Graphics.- Parallel Random Number Generators Based on Large Order Multiple Recursive Generators.- Efficient Numerical Inversion for Financial Simulations.- Equidistribution Properties of Generalized Nets and Sequences.- Implementation of a Component-By-Component Algorithm to Generate Small Low-Discrepancy Samples.- Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation of Diffusion in a Spatially Nonhomogeneous Medium.- Discrepancy of Two-Dimensional Digitally Shifted Hammersley Point Sets in Base.- Vibrato Monte Carlo Sensitivities.- The Weighted Variance Minimization in Jump-Diffusion Stochastic Volatility Models.- -Nets and Maximized Minimum Distance, Part II.- Automation of Statistical Tests on Randomness to Obtain Clearer Conclusion.- On Subsequencesof Niederreiter-Halton Sequences.- Correcting the Bias in Monte Carlo Estimators of American-style Option Values.- Fast Principal Components Analysis Method for Finance Problems With Unequal Time