• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1989.10a
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• pp.44-44
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• 1989

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.117-126
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• 1991

When {X(t), t ${\geq}$ 0} is a Markov process representing time-varying system states, we develop efficient bounding methods for some time-dependent performance measures. We use the discretization technique for stochastically monotone Markov processes and a combination of discretization and uniformization for Markov processes with the stochastic convexity(concavity) property. Sufficient conditions for stochastic monotonocity and stochastic convexity of a Markov process are also mentioned. A simple example is given to demonstrate the validity of the bounding methods.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1045-1054
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• 2012

Support vector machine is known to be the very useful statistical method in classification and nonlinear function estimation. In this paper we propose a monotone support vector regression (SVR) for the estimation of monotonically decreasing function. The proposed monotone SVR is applied to smooth the Kaplan-Meier estimate of survival function. Experimental results are then presented which indicate the performance of the proposed monotone SVR using survival functions obtained by exponential distribution.