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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF11409</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-2000-11409</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Nonlinear Stochastic Optimization by the Monte-Carlo Method</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Sakalauskas</surname><given-names>Leonidas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:sakal@ktl.mii.lt">sakal@ktl.mii.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2000</year></pub-date><volume>11</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>455</fpage><lpage>468</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>05</month><year>2000</year></date></history><abstract><p>Methods for solving stochastic optimization problems by Monte-Carlo simulation are considered. The stoping and accuracy of the solutions is treated in a statistical manner, testing the hypothesis of optimality according to statistical criteria. A rule for adjusting the Monte-Carlo sample size is introduced to ensure the convergence and to find the solution of the stochastic optimization problem from acceptable volume of Monte-Carlo trials. The examples of application of the developed method to importance sampling and the Weber location problem are also considered.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>Monte-Carlo method</kwd><kwd>stochastic optimization</kwd><kwd>statistical decisions</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>