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SIAMREV
2010
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What Shape Is Your Conjugate? A Survey of Computational Convex Analysis and Its Applications
Computational Convex Analysis algorithms have been rediscovered several times in the past by researchers from different fields. To further communications between practitioners, we ...
Yves Lucet
SIAMMAX
2010
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The Legendre-Fenchel Conjugate of the Product of Two Positive Definite Quadratic Forms
It is well-known that the Legendre-Fenchel conjugate of a positive definite quadratic form can be explicitly expressed as another positive definite quadratic form, and that the con...
Yun-Bin Zhao
SIAMJO
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Multivariable Utility Functions
Abstract. Utility functions of several variables are ubiquitous in economics. Their maximization requires inversion of the gradient map. Using convex analysis tools, we provide a r...
Maria B. Chiarolla, Ulrich G. Haussmann
MOR
2006
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Optimization of Convex Risk Functions
We consider optimization problems involving convex risk functions. By employing techniques of convex analysis and optimization theory in vector spaces of measurable functions we d...
Andrzej Ruszczynski, Alexander Shapiro