Applications – Science and Engineering

iNEOS : An Interactive Environment for Nonlinear Optimization

  • Jean-Pierre Goux
  • Marcel Good
  • Jorge Nocedal
  • Victor Pereyra
    • Categories Nonlinear Optimization, Optimization of Systems modeled by PDEs, Problem Solving Environments Tags , , , , ,

    In this paper we describe iNEOS, an Internet-based environment which facilitates the solution of complex nonlinear optimization problems. It enables a user to easily invoke a remote optimization code without having to supply the model to be optimized. An interactive communication between client and server is established and maintainted using CORBA. We test the system … Read more

    Interior point methods for massive support vector machines

  • Michael C. Ferris
  • Todd S. Munson
    • Categories Data-Mining Tags , ,

    We investigate the use of interior point methods for solving quadratic programming problems with a small number of linear constraints where the quadratic term consists of a low-rank update to a positive semi-definite matrix. Several formulations of the support vector machine fit into this category. An interesting feature of these particular problems is the volume … Read more