Real-Time Optimization as a Generalized Equation

We establish results for the problem of tracking a time-dependent manifold arising in online nonlinear programming by casting this as a generalized equation. We demonstrate that if points along a solution manifold are consistently strongly regular, it is possible to track the manifold approximately by solving a linear complementarity problem (LCP) at each time step. … Read more

Starting-Point Strategies for an Infeasible Potential Reduction Method

We present two strategies for choosing a “hot” starting-point in the context of an infeasible Potential Reduction (PR) method for convex Quadratic Programming. The basic idea of both strategies is to select a preliminary point and to suitably scale it in order to obtain a starting point such that its nonnegative entries are sufficiently bounded … Read more

Convergence of fixed-point continuation algorithms for matrix rank minimization

The matrix rank minimization problem has applications in many fields such as system identification, optimal control, low-dimensional embedding, etc. As this problem is NP-hard in general, its convex relaxation, the nuclear norm minimization problem, is often solved instead. Recently, Ma, Goldfarb and Chen proposed a fixed-point continuation algorithm for solving the nuclear norm minimization problem. … Read more

Stability for solution of Differential Variational Inequalitiy

In this paper we study the class of differential variational inequality(DVI) in a finite-dimension Euclidean space. We study stability and perturbation of the DVI under the OSL condition. Besides, we establish a Prior Bound Theorem, which is a useful tool to prove stability of DVI. In this paper, we replace the classical Lipshitz continuity by … Read more

Rank-Sparsity Incoherence for Matrix Decomposition

Suppose we are given a matrix that is formed by adding an unknown sparse matrix to an unknown low-rank matrix. Our goal is to decompose the given matrix into its sparse and low-rank components. Such a problem arises in a number of applications in model and system identification, and is NP-hard in general. In this … Read more

A Hierarchy of Bounds for Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs

Strong relaxations are critical for solving deterministic mixed-integer programs. As solving stochastic mixed-integer programs (SMIPs) is even harder, it is likely that strong relaxations will also prove essential for SMIPs. We consider general two-stage SMIPs with recourse, where integer variables are allowed in both stages of the problem and randomness is allowed in the objective … Read more

On Solving Single-objective Fuzzy Integer Linear Fractional Programs

A suggested program with fuzzy linear fractional objective and integer decision variables (FILFP) is considered. The fuzzy coefficients are involved in the numerator of the linear objective function and can be characterized by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The purpose of this paper is to outline an algorithm available to solve (FILFP). In addition, an illustrative example … Read more

Interior Proximal Algorithm with Variable Metric for Second-Order Cone Programming: Applications to Structural Optimization and Support Vector Machines

In this work, we propose an inexact interior proximal type algorithm for solving convex second-order cone programs. This kind of problems consists of minimizing a convex function (possibly nonsmooth) over the intersection of an affine linear space with the Cartesian product of second-order cones. The proposed algorithm uses a distance variable metric, which is induced … Read more

An inexact parallel splitting augmented Lagrangian method for large system of linear equations

Parallel iterative methods are power tool for solving large system of linear equations (LQs). The existing parallel computing research results are all most concentred to sparse system or others particular structure, and all most based on parallel implementing the classical relaxation methods such as Gauss-Seidel, SOR, and AOR methods e±ciently on multiprcessor systems. In this … Read more

Control problems with mixed constraints and application to an optimal investment problem

We discuss two optimal control problems of parabolic equations, with mixed state and control constraints, for which the standard qualification condition does not hold. Our first example is a bottleneck problem, and the second one is an optimal investment problem where a utility type function is to be minimized. By an adapted penalization technique, we … Read more