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    30 December 2013, Volume 1 Issue 4
    Continuous Optimization
    A Subspace Version of the Powell–Yuan Trust-Region Algorithm for Equality Constrained Optimization
    Geovani Nunes Grapiglia · Jin-Yun Yuan · Ya-Xiang Yuan
    2013, 1(4):  425-452.  doi:10.1007/s40305-013-0029-4
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    This paper studied subspace properties of the Celis–Dennis–Tapia (CDT)
    subproblem that arises in some trust-region algorithms for equality constrained optimization.
    The analysis is an extension of that presented by Wang and Yuan (Numer.
    Math. 104:241–269, 2006) for the standard trust-region subproblem. Under suitable
    conditions, it is shown that the trial step obtained from the CDT subproblem is in
    the subspace spanned by all the gradient vectors of the objective function and of
    the constraints computed until the current iteration. Based on this observation, a subspace
    version of the Powell–Yuan trust-region algorithm is proposed for equality constraithe number of variables. The convergence analysis is given and numerical results are
    also reported.ned
    optimization problems where the number of constraints is much lower than

    On Nondifferentiable Higher-Order Symmetric Duality in Multiobjective Programming Involving Cones
    Xin- Min Yang · Jin Yang · Tsz Leung Yip
    2013, 1(4):  453-466.  doi:10.1007/s40305-013-0033-8
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    In this paper, we point out some deficiencies in a recent paper (Lee and
    Kim in J. Nonlinear Convex Anal. 13:599–614, 2012), and we establish strong duality
    and converse duality theorems for two types of nondifferentiable higher-order
    symmetric duals multiobjective programming involving cones.

    A Full Nesterov-Todd Step FeasibleWeighted Primal-Dual Interior-Point Algorithm for Symmetric Optimization
    Behrouz Kheirfam
    2013, 1(4):  467-482.  doi:10.1007/s40305-013-0032-9
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    In this paper a weighted short-step primal-dual interior-point algorithm for
    linear optimization over symmetric cones is proposed that uses new search directions.
    The algorithm uses at each interior-point iteration a full Nesterov-Todd step and the
    strategy of the central path to obtain a solution of symmetric optimization. We establish
    the iteration bound for the algorithm, which matches the currently best-known
    iteration bound for these methods, and prove that the algorithm is quadratically convergent.

    On Bilevel Variational Inequalities
    ?Zhong-Ping Wan ·? Jia-Wei Chen
    2013, 1(4):  483-510.  doi:10.1007/s40305-013-0036-5
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    A class of bilevel variational inequalities (shortly (BVI)) with hierarchical
    nesting structure is firstly introduced and investigated. The relationship between
    (BVI) and some existing bilevel problems are presented. Subsequently, the existence
    of solution and the behavior of solution sets to (BVI) and the lower level variational
    inequality are discussed without coercivity. By using the penalty method, we transform
    (BVI) into one-level variational inequality, and establish the equivalence between
    (BVI) and the one-level variational inequality. A new iterative algorithm to
    compute the approximate solutions of (BVI) is also suggested and analyzed. The
    convergence of the iterative sequence generated by the proposed algorithm is derived
    under some mild conditions. Finally, some relationships among (BVI), system
    of variational inequalities and vector variational inequalities are also given.

    An Approximation Algorithm for the Stochastic Fault-Tolerant Facility Location Problem
    Chen-Chen Wu · Da-Chuan Xu · Jia Shu
    2013, 1(4):  511-522.  doi:10.1007/s40305-013-0034-7
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    In this paper, we study a stochastic version of the fault-tolerant facility location
    problem. By exploiting the stochastic structure, we propose a 5-approximation
    algorithm which uses the LP-rounding technique based on the revised optimal solution
    to the linear programming relaxation of the stochastic fault-tolerant facility
    location problem.

    An Adaptive Infeasible Interior-Point Algorithm for Linear Complementarity Problems
    Hossein Mansouri · Mohammad Pirhaji
    2013, 1(4):  523-536.  doi:10.1007/s40305-013-0031-x
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    Interior-Point Methods (IPMs) not only are the most effective methods in
    practice but also have polynomial-time complexity. Many researchers have proposed
    IPMs for Linear Optimization (LO) and achieved plentiful results. In many cases
    these methods were extendable for LO to Linear Complementarity Problems (LCPs)
    successfully. In this paper, motivated by the complexity results for linear optimization
    based on the study of H. Mansouri et al. (Mansouri and Zangiabadi in J. Optim.
    62(2):285–297, 2013), we extend their idea for LO to LCP. The proposed algorithm
    requires two types of full-Newton steps are called, feasibility steps and (ordinary)
    centering steps, respectively. At each iteration both feasibility and optimality are reduced
    exactly at the same rate. In each iteration of the algorithm we use the largest
    possible barrier parameter value θ which lies between the two values 1
    17n and 1
    13n , this
    makes the algorithm faster convergent for problems having a strictly complementarity
    solution.

    On the l_1-Norm Invariant Convex k-Sparse Decomposition of Signals
    Guang-Wu Xu · Zhi-Qiang Xu
    2013, 1(4):  537-541.  doi:10.1007/s40305-013-0030-y
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    Inspired by an interesting idea of Cai and Zhang, we formulate and prove
    the convex k-sparse decomposition of vectors that is invariant with respect to the
    l_1 norm. This result fits well in discussing compressed sensing problems under the
    Restricted Isometry property, but we believe it also has independent interest. As an
    application, a simple derivation of the RIP recovery condition δk + θk,k < 1 is presented.