SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Proximal bundle methods have been shown to be highly successful optimization methods for unconstrained convex problems with discontinuous first derivatives. This naturally leads ...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Abstract. This paper concerns second-order analysis for a remarkable class of variational systems in finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional spaces, which is particularly imp...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Identifying small groups of lines, whose removal would cause a severe blackout, is critical for the secure operation of the electric power grid. We show how power grid vulnerabilit...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
We give several versions of local and global inverse mapping theorem for tame non necessarily smooth, mappings. Here tame mapping means a mapping which is subanalytic or, more gene...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Abstract. We present a new “lifting” approach for the solution of nonlinear optimization problems (NLPs) that have objective and constraint functions with intermediate variable...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
A linear matrix inequality (LMI) is a condition stating that a symmetric matrix whose entries are affine linear combinations of variables is positive semidefinite. Motivated by th...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Abstract. Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods form a class of highly efficient algorithms for solving nonlinearly constrained optimization problems. Although second deri...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
This paper addresses the need for nonlinear programming algorithms that provide fast local convergence guarantees no matter if a problem is feasible or infeasible. We present an a...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
This paper introduces a novel algorithm to approximate the matrix with minimum nuclear norm among all matrices obeying a set of convex constraints. This problem may be understood a...
SIAMJO
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
This paper concerns a generalized equation defined by a closed multifunction between Banach spaces, and we employ variational analysis techniques to provide sufficient and/or nece...