Kitahara and Mizuno (2010) get two upper bounds for the number of different basic feasible solutions generated by Dantzig’s simplex method. The size of the bounds highly depends on the ratio between the maximum and minimum values of all the positive elements of basic feasible solutions. In this paper, we show some relations between the … Read more
The central curve of a linear program is an algebraic curve specified by linear and quadratic constraints arising from complementary slackness. It is the union of the various central paths for minimizing or maximizing the cost function over any region in the associated hyperplane arrangement. We determine the degree, arithmetic genus and defining prime ideal … Read more
In this paper, ellipse is used to approximate the central path of the linear programming. An interior-point algorithm is devised to search the optimizers along the ellipse. The algorithm is proved to be polynomial with the complexity bound $O(n^{\frac{1}{2}}\log(1/\epsilon))$. Numerical test is conducted for problems in Netlib. For most tested Netlib problems, the result shows … Read more
Arc-search is developed for linear programming in \cite{yang09, yang10}. The algorithms search for optimizers along an ellipse that are approximations of the central path. In this paper, the arc-search method is applied to primal-dual path-following interior-point method for convex quadratic programming. A simple algorithm with iteration complexity $O(\sqrt{n}\log(1/\epsilon))$ is devised. Several improvements on the simple … Read more
Constraint-reduction schemes have been proposed for the solution by means of interior-point methods of linear programs with many more inequality constraints than variables in standard dual form. Such schemes have been shown to be provably convergent and highly efficient in practice. A critical requirement of these schemes is the availability of an initial dual-feasible point. … Read more
In this paper, we develop a simultaneous column-and-row generation algorithm that could be applied to a general class of large-scale linear programming problems. These problems typically arise in the context of linear programming formulations with exponentially many variables. The defining property for these formulations is a set of linking constraints, which are either too many … Read more
We consider the logarithmic and the volumetric barrier functions used in interior point methods. In the case of the logarithmic barrier function, the analytic center of a level set is the point at which the central path intersects that level set. We prove that this also holds for the volumetric path. For the central path, … Read more
We present a novel approach for solving dense saddle-point linear systems in a distributed-memory environment. This work is motivated by an application in stochastic optimization problems with recourse, but the proposed approach can be used for a large family of dense saddle-point systems, in particular those arising in convex programming. Although stochastic optimization problems have … Read more
We study the interactions between computational and economic performance of dispatch operations under highly dynamic environments. In particular, we discuss the need for extending the forecast horizon of the dispatch formulation in order to anticipate steep variations of renewable power and highly elastic loads. We present computational strategies to solve the increasingly larger optimization problems … Read more
In 1951, Dantzig showed the equivalence of linear programming and two-person zero-sum games. However, in the description of his reduction from linear programming to zero-sum games, he noted that there was one case in which his reduction does not work. This also led to incomplete proofs of the relationship between the Minmax Theorem of game … Read more