Optimization Methods and Software , Volume 25

Volume 25, Number 1, 2010

Special Issue: Dedicated to Professor Vladimir F. Demyanov on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

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  Masao Fukushima, Manlio Gaudioso, Franco Giannessi, Diethard Pallaschke:
  Foreword. 1-2
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  Adil M. Bagirov, Asef Nazari Ganjehlou:
  A quasisecant method for minimizing nonsmooth functions. 3-18
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  Giancarlo Bigi, Antonio Frangioni, Qinghua Zhang:
  Approximate optimality conditions and stopping criteria in canonical DC programming. 19-27
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  Giancarlo Bigi, Barbara Panicucci:
  A successive linear programming algorithm for nonsmooth monotone variational inequalities. 29-35
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  Radu Ioan Bot, Sorin-Mihai Grad:
  Lower semicontinuous type regularity conditions for subdifferential calculus. 37-48
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  Marco Castellani, Massimo Pappalardo, Mauro Passacantando:
  Existence results for nonconvex equilibrium problems. 49-58
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  Manlio Gaudioso, Enrico Gorgone:
  Gradient set splitting in nonconvex nonsmooth numerical optimization. 59-74
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  Ivan Ginchev, Angelo Guerraggio, Matteo Rocca:
  Second-order Dini set-valued directional derivative in C ^{1, 1} vector optimization. 75-87
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  Jerzy Grzybowski, Diethard Pallaschke, Ryszard Urbanski:
  On the amount of minimal pairs of convex sets. 89-96
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  Evgeni A. Nurminski:
  Envelope stepsize control for iterative algorithms based on Fejer processes with attractants. 97-108
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  Nina Ovcharova:
  Second-order analysis of the Moreau-Yosida and the Lasry-Lions regularizations. 109-116
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  Francesco Rinaldi, Marco Sciandrone:
  Feature selection combining linear support vector machines and concave optimization. 117-128
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  Vera Roshchina:
  Mordukhovich subdifferential of pointwise minimum of approximate convex functions. 129-141
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  Amos Uderzo:
  On a perturbation approach to open mapping theorems. 143-167

Volume 25, Number 2, 2010

Special Issue: The 22nd European Conference on Operational Research, 8-11 July 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

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  Ekaterina A. Kostina, Tamás Terlaky:
  Foreword. 169-170
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  Indra Adrianto, Theodore B. Trafalis:
  The p-Centre machine for regression analysis. 171-183
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  Renato De Leone, C. Lazzari:
  Error bounds for support vector machines with application to the identification of active constraints. 185-202
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  Josep Freixas, Xavier Molinero:
  Weighted games without a unique minimal representation in integers. 203-215
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  Constantin Gaul, Sascha Kurz, Jörg Rambau:
  On the lot-type design problem. 217-227
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  Alireza Ghaffari-Hadigheh, Oleksandr Romanko, Tamás Terlaky:
  Bi-parametric convex quadratic optimization. 229-245
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  Margaréta Halická, Mária Trnovská:
  Limiting behaviour and analyticity of weighted central paths in semidefinite programming. 247-262
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  Kun He, Wenqi Huang:
  Solving the single-container loading problem by a fast heuristic method. 263-277
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  Olga I. Kostyukova, Tatiana V. Tchemisova:
  Sufficient optimality conditions for convex semi-infinite programming. 279-297
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  Carina Maria Oliveira Pimentel, Filipe Pereira Alvelos, José Manuel Valério de Carvalho:
  Comparing Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions and branch-and-price algorithms for the multi-item capacitated lot sizing problem. 299-319
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  Marta I. Velazco Fontova, Aurelio R. L. Oliveira, F. F. Campos:
  A note on hybrid preconditioners for large-scale normal equations arising from interior-point methods. 321-332

Book Reviews

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  Philippe L. Toint:
  Book review. 333-334

Volume 25, Number 3, 2010

Special Issue: The 2nd Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms (VOCAL), 13-15 December 2006, Veszprém, Hungary

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  Botond Bertók, Tamás Terlaky:
  Preface. 335-336
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  Geir Gundersen, Trond Steihaug:
  On large-scale unconstrained optimization problems and higher order methods. 337-358
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  Serge Gratton, Mélodie Mouffe, Annick Sartenaer, Philippe L. Toint, Dimitri Tomanos:
  Numerical experience with a recursive trust-region method for multilevel nonlinear bound-constrained optimization. 359-386
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  Mohamed El Ghami, Cornelis Roos, Trond Steihaug:
  A generic primal-dual interior-point method for semidefinite optimization based on a new class of kernel functions. 387-403
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  Ivan D. Ivanov, Etienne de Klerk:
  Parallel implementation of a semidefinite programming solver based on CSDP on a distributed memory cluster. 405-420
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  Enrico Angelelli, Maria Grazia Speranza, József Szoldatics, Zsolt Tuza:
  Geometric representation for semi on-line scheduling on uniform processors. 421-428
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  Ebrahim Nasrabadi, S. Mehdi Hashemi:
  Minimum cost time-varying network flow problems. 429-447
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  Csaba Mészáros:
  On the implementation of interior point methods for dual-core platforms. 449-456
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  Maziar Salahi, Saeed Ketabchi:
  Correcting an inconsistent set of linear inequalities by the generalized Newton method. 457-465
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  Mohammad H. Koulaei, Tamás Terlaky:
  On the complexity analysis of a Mehrotra-type primal-dual feasible algorithm for semidefinite optimization. 467-485

Book review

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  Panos M. Pardalos:
  Convex optimization theory. 487

Volume 25, Number 4, 2010

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  Alaeddin Malek, Najmeh Hosseinipour-Mahani, S. Ezazipour:
  Efficient recurrent neural network model for the solution of general nonlinear optimization problems. 489-506
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  Serge Gratton, Philippe L. Toint:
  Approximate invariant subspaces and quasi-newton optimization methods. 507-529
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  Moritz Diehl, Andrea Walther, Hans Georg Bock, Ekaterina A. Kostina:
  An adjoint-based SQP algorithm with quasi-Newton Jacobian updates for inequality constrained optimization. 531-552
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  Julia Sternberg, Michael Hinze:
  A memory-reduced implementation of the Newton-CG method in optimal control of nonlinear time-dependent PDEs. 553-571
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  Martin Gugat, Michael Herty:
  The smoothed-penalty algorithm for state constrained optimal control problems for partial differential equations. 573-599
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  Sven Leyffer, Todd S. Munson:
  Solving multi-leader-common-follower games. 601-623
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  Debora Mahlke, Alexander Martin, Susanne Moritz:
  A mixed integer approach for time-dependent gas network optimization. 625-644
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  Adel Hamdi, Andreas Griewank:
  Properties of an augmented Lagrangian for design optimization. 645-664

Volume 25, Number 5, 2010

Special Issue: The 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Programming with Applications Preface

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  Xuexiang Huang, Jie Sun, Xiaoqi Yang, Xinmin Yang:
  Preface: Special section on the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Programming with Applications. 665

The 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Programming with Applications

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  Sanming Liu, Enmin Feng:
  The exponential penalty function method for multiobjective programming problems. 667-675
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  Jian-Wen Peng, Jen-Chih Yao:
  Some new extragradient-like methods for generalized equilibrium problems, fixed point problems and variational inequality problems. 677-698
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  Guanghui Wang, Song Wang:
  Convergence of a finite element approximation to a degenerate parabolic variational inequality with non-smooth data arising from American option valuation. 699-723
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  Ka Fai Cedric Yiu, Wei-Yong Yan, Kok Lay Teo, Siow Yong Low:
  A new hybrid descent method with application to the optimal design of finite precision FIR filters. 725-735
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  K. Zhang, X. Q. Yang, Song Wang, Kok Lay Teo:
  Numerical performance of penalty method for American option pricing. 737-752

Regular articles

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  Haibin Zhang:
  On the Halley class of methods for unconstrainedoptimization problems. 753-762
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  Leonid Faybusovich:
  Jordan-algebraic aspects of optimization: randomization. 763-779
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  Yong-Jun Wang:
  Improving particle swarm optimization performance with local search for high-dimensional function optimization. 781-795
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  Joshua D. Griffin, Tamara G. Kolda:
  Asynchronous parallel hybrid optimization combining DIRECT and GSS. 797-817
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  Shigeru Hanba:
  Globally convergent Jacobian-free nonlinear equation solvers based on non-monotone norm descent conditions and a modified line search technique. 819-837

Volume 25, Number 6, 2010

Special Issue: The International Conference on Engineering Optimization (EngOpt 2008) The International Conference on Engineering Optimization (EngOpt 2008)

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  Jose Herskovits Norman, Klaus Schittkowski:
  Foreword. 839
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  Timo Aittokoski, Kaisa Miettinen:
  Efficient evolutionary approach to approximate the Pareto-optimal set in multiobjective optimization, UPS-EMOA. 841-858
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  Felipe Alvarez, Julio López, Héctor Ramírez Cabrera:
  Interior proximal algorithm with variable metric for second-order cone programming: applications to structural optimization and support vector machines. 859-881
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  Márcia A. Gomes-Ruggiero, Mael Sachine, Sandra Augusta Santos:
  A spectral updating for the method of moving asymptotes. 883-893
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  Napsu Karmitsa, Marko M. Mäkelä:
  Limited memory bundle method for large bound constrained nonsmooth optimization: convergence analysis. 895-916
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  Welington Luis de Oliveira, Claudia A. Sagastizábal, Débora Dias Jardim Penna, Maria Elvira Piñeiro Maceira, Jorge Machado Damázio:
  Optimal scenario tree reduction for stochastic streamflows in power generation planning problems. 917-936
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  Süreyya Özögür-Akyüz, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber:
  Infinite kernel learning via infinite and semi-infinite programming. 937-970

Regular article

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  Luigi Grippo, Marco Sciandrone:
  Nonmonotone globalization of the finite-difference Newton-GMRES method for nonlinear equations. 971-999