Objective space for multiple objectives linear fractional programming

In this paper we give the construction of the objective space of multiple objectives linear fractional programming (MOLFP) with equal denominators under the linear fractional mapping .In this case the decision space maps to an objective space of less dimension. The important of this study is that the decision-Maker may depend on extreme points of … Read more

A new method for solving linear fractional programming problems

In this paper a new method is suggested for solving the problem in which the objective function is a linear fractional function, and where the constraint functions are in the form of linear inequalities. The proposed method is based mainly upon solving this problem algebraically using the concept of duality. Since the earlier methods based … Read more

A novel elitist multiobjective optimization algorithm: multiobjective extremal optimization

Recently, a general-purpose local-search heuristic method called Extremal Optimization (EO) has been successfully applied to some NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. This paper presents an investigation on EO with its application in multiobjective optimization and proposes a new novel elitist multiobjective algorithm, called Multiobjective Extremal Optimization (MOEO). In order to extend EO to solve the multiobjective … Read more

Multi-objective branch-and-bound. Application to the bi-objective spanning tree problem.

This paper focuses on a multi-objective derivation of branch-and-bound procedures. Such a procedure aims to provide the set of Pareto optimal solutions of a multi-objective combinatorial optimization problem. Unlike previous works on this issue, the bounding is performed here via a set of points rather than a single ideal point. The main idea is that … Read more

Sufficient Conditions for a Real Polynomial to be a Sum of Squares

We provide explicit sufficient conditions for a polynomial $f$ to be a sum of squares (s.o.s.), linear in the coefficients of $f$. All conditions are simple and provide an explicit description of a convex polyhedral subcone of the cone of s.o.s. polynomials of degree at most $2d$. We also provide a simple condition to ensure … Read more

Measures with zeros in the inverse of their moment matrix

We investigate and discuss when the inverse of a multivariate truncated moment matrix of a measure has zeros in some prescribed entries. We describe precisely which pattern of these zeroes corresponds to independence, namely, the measure having a product structure. A more refined finding is that the key factor forcing a zero entry in this … Read more

The Impact of Collusion on the Price of Anarchy in Nonatomic and Discrete Network Games

Hayrapetyan, Tardos and Wexler recently introduced a framework to study the impact of collusion in congestion games on the quality of Nash equilibria. We adopt their framework to network games and focus on the well established price of anarchy as a measure of this impact. We first investigate nonatomic network games with coalitions. For this … Read more

Sensitivity analysis in linear semi-infinite programming via partitions

This paper provides sufficient conditions for the optimal value function of a given linear semi-infinite programming problem to depend linearly on the size of the perturbations, when these perturbations are directional, involve either the cost coefficients or the right-hand-side function or both, and they are sufficiently small. Two kinds of partitions are considered. The first … Read more

CONVERGENCE OF A CLASS OF SEMI-IMPLICIT TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES FOR NONSMOOTH RIGID MULTIBODY DYNAMICS

In this work we present a framework for the convergence analysis in a measure differential inclusion sense of a class of time-stepping schemes for multibody dynamics with contacts, joints, and friction. This class of methods solves one linear complementarity problem per step and contains the semi-implicit Euler method, as well as trapezoidallike methods for which … Read more

A new adaptive algorithm for linear multiobjective programming problems

In this paper, we present a new adaptive algorithm for defining the solution set of a multiobjective linear programming problem, where the decision variables are upper and lower bounded, using the direct support method. The principle particularitie of this method is the fact that it handles the bounds of variables such are they are initially … Read more