Recent Applications of Linear Programming in Memory of George Dantzig Yinyu Ye

Recent Applications of Linear Programming in Memory of George Dantzig

• Yinyu Ye

• Department if Management Science and Engineering

• Stanford University

• ISMP 2006

Outline

• LP in Auction Pricing

• Parimutuel Call Auction

• Proving Theorems using LP

• Uncapacitated Facility Location
• Core of Cooperative Game

• Applications of LP Algorithms

• Walras-Arrow-Debreu Equilibrium
• Linear Conic Programming

• Photo Album of George

• (Applications presented here are by no means complete)

Outline

• LP in Auction Pricing

• Parimutuel Call Auction

• Proving Theorems using LP

• Uncapacitated Facility Location
• Core of Cooperative Game

• Applications of LP Algorithms

• Walras-Arrow-Debreu equilibrium
• Linear Conic Programming

• Photo Album of George

World Cup Betting Example

• Market for World Cup Winner

• Assume 5 teams have a chance to win the 2006 World Cup:
• Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Germany and France
• We’d like to have a standard payout of $1 if a participant has a claim where his selected team won

• Sample Orders

Markets for Contingent Claims

• A Contingent Claim Market

• S possible states of the world (one will be realized).
• N participants who (say j), submit orders to a market organizer containing the following information:
• ai,j - State bid (either 1 or 0)
• qj – Limit contract quantity
• πj – Limit price per contract
• Call auction mechanism is used by one market organizer.
• If orders are filled and correct state is realized, the organizer will pay the participant a fixed amount w for each winning contract.
• The organizer would like to determine the following:
• pi – State price
• xj – Order fill

Central Organization of the Market

• Belief-based

• Central organizer will determine prices for each state based on his beliefs of their likelihood
• This is similar to the manner in which fixed odds bookmakers operate in the betting world
• Generally not self-funding

• Parimutuel

• A self-funding technique popular in horseracing betting

Parimutuel Methods

• Definition

• Etymology: French pari mutuel, literally, mutual stake A system of betting on races whereby the winners divide the total amount bet, after deducting management expenses, in proportion to the sums they have wagered individually.

• Example: Parimutuel Horseracing Betting

Parimutuel Market Microstructure

World Cup Betting Results

• Orders Filled

Outline

• LP in Auction Pricing

• Parimutuel Call Auction

• Proving Theorems using LP

• Uncapacitated Facility Location
• Core of Cooperative Game

• Applications of LP Algorithms

• Walras-Arrow-Debreu equilibrium
• Linear Conic Programming

• Photo Album of George

Facility Location Problem

• Input

• A set of clients or cities D

• A set of facilities F with facility cost fi

• Connection cost Cij, (obey triangle inequality)

• Output

• A subset of facilities F’

• An assignment of clients to facilities in F’

• Objective

• Minimize the total cost (facility + connection)

Facility Location Problem

Facility Location Problem

Hardness Results

• Hardness Results

LP Relaxation and its Dual

Time = 0

Time = 1

Time = 2

Time = 3

Time = 4

Time = 5

Time = 5

Time = 6

Time = 6

Approximation Results

• Approximation Results

Other Revealing LP Examples

• N. Bansal et al. on “Further improvements in competitive guarantees for QoS buffering,” 2004.

• Mehta et al on “Adwords and Generalized Online Matching,” 2005

Core of Cooperative Game

• A set of alliance-proof allocations of profit (Scarf [1967])

• Deterministic game (using linear programming duality, Dantzig/Von Neumann [1948])

• Linear Production, MST, flow game, some location games (Owen [1975]), Samet and Zemel [1984], Tamir [1991], Deng et al. [1994], Feigle et al. [1997], Goemans and Skutella [2004], etc.)

• Stochastic game (using stochastic linear programming duality, Rockafellar and Wets [1976])

• Inventory game, Newsvendor (Anupindi et al. [2001], Muller et al. [2002], Slikker et al. [2005], Chen and Zhang [2006], etc. )

Outline

• LP in Auction Pricing

• Parimutuel Call Auction

• Proving Theorems using LP

• Uncapacitated Facility Location
• Core of Alliance

• Applications of LP Algorithms

• Walras-Arrow-Debreu equilibrium
• Linear Conic Programming

• Photo Album of George

Walras-Arrow-Debreu Equilibrium

• The problem was first formulated by Leon Walras in 1874, Elements of Pure Economics, or the Theory of Social Wealth

• n players, each with

• an initial endowment of a divisible good

• utility function for consuming all goods—own and others.

• Every player

• sells the entire initial endowment

• uses the revenue to buy a bundle of goods such that his or her utility function is maximized.

• Walras asked:

• Can prices be set for all the goods such that the market clears?

• Answer by Arrow and Debreu in 1954:

• yes, under mild conditions if the utility functions are concave.

Walras-Arrow-Debreu Equilibrium

Fisher Equilibrium

Utility Functions

Equilibrium Computation

Equilibrium Computation

Equilibrium Computation

Equilibrium Computation

Linear Conic Programming

Outline

• LP in Auction Pricing

• Parimutuel Call Auction
• Core of Alliance

• Proving Theorems using LP

• Uncapacitated Facility Location

• Applications of LP Algorithms

• Walras-Arrow-Debreu equilibrium
• Linear Conic Programming

• Photo Album of George

Childhood Years

University Student Years

1967 Stanford OR

1975 National Medal of Science

1975 Nobel Laureate

1987 Student Graduation

2003 Science Fiction

2004 90th Birthday Party

2004 90th Birthday Party

2004 90th Birthday Party

LP/Dantzig Legacy Continues …

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