Are Weaker Stationarity Concepts of Stochastic MPCC Problems Significant in Absence of SMPCC-LICQ?

In this article, we study weak stationarity conditions (A- and C-) for a particular class of degenerate stochastic mathematical programming problems with complementarity constraints (SMPCC, for short). Importance of the weak stationarity concepts in absence of SMPCC-LICQ are presented through toy problems in which the point of local or global minimum are weak stationary points … Read more

Elastic-Mode Algorithms for Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints: Global Convergence and Stationarity Properties

The elastic-mode formulation of the problem of minimizing a nonlinear function subject to equilibrium constraints has appealing local properties in that, for a finite value of the penalty parameter, local solutions satisfying first- and second-order necessary optimality conditions for the original problem are also first- and second-order points of the elastic-mode formulation. Here we study … Read more