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Book Solving Asymmetric Variational Inequality Problems and Systems of Equations with Generalized Nonlinear Programming Algorithms

Download or read book Solving Asymmetric Variational Inequality Problems and Systems of Equations with Generalized Nonlinear Programming Algorithms written by Janice H. Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nonlinear Programming and Variational Inequality Problems

Download or read book Nonlinear Programming and Variational Inequality Problems written by Michael Patriksson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since I started working in the area of nonlinear programming and, later on, variational inequality problems, I have frequently been surprised to find that many algorithms, however scattered in numerous journals, monographs and books, and described rather differently, are closely related to each other. This book is meant to help the reader understand and relate algorithms to each other in some intuitive fashion, and represents, in this respect, a consolidation of the field. The framework of algorithms presented in this book is called Cost Approxi mation. (The preface of the Ph.D. thesis [Pat93d] explains the background to the work that lead to the thesis, and ultimately to this book.) It describes, for a given formulation of a variational inequality or nonlinear programming problem, an algorithm by means of approximating mappings and problems, a principle for the update of the iteration points, and a merit function which guides and monitors the convergence of the algorithm. One purpose of this book is to offer this framework as an intuitively appeal ing tool for describing an algorithm. One of the advantages of the framework, or any reasonable framework for that matter, is that two algorithms may be easily related and compared through its use. This framework is particular in that it covers a vast number of methods, while still being fairly detailed; the level of abstraction is in fact the same as that of the original problem statement.

Book Dynamic Optimization and Differential Games

Download or read book Dynamic Optimization and Differential Games written by Terry L. Friesz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written to address the increasing number of Operations Research and Management Science problems (that is, applications) that involve the explicit consideration of time and of gaming among multiple agents. It is a book that will be used both as a textbook and as a reference and guide by those whose work involves the theoretical aspects of dynamic optimization and differential games.

Book Conditions for Finite Convergence of Algorithms for Nonlinear Programs and Variational Inequalities

Download or read book Conditions for Finite Convergence of Algorithms for Nonlinear Programs and Variational Inequalities written by Faiz Abdullah Al-Khayyal and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algorithms for nonlinear programming and variational inequality problems are, in general, only guaranteed to converge in the limit to a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker point, in the case of nonlinear programs, or a solution in the case of variational inequalities. In this paper we derive sufficient conditions for nonlinear programs and variational inequalities such that any convergent algorithm can be modified to guarantee finite convergence to a solution. Our conditions are more general than existing results and, in addition, have wider applicability. Moreover, we note that our sufficient conditions are close to the related necessary conditions, and show by counterexamples that our main nondegeneracy assumptions cannot be relaxed. Keywords: Convergence of algorithms; Nonlinear programs; Variational inequalities.

Book The Traffic Assignment Problem

Download or read book The Traffic Assignment Problem written by Michael Patriksson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This unique monograph, a classic in its field, provides an account of the development of models and methods for the problem of estimating equilibrium traffic flows in urban areas. The text further demonstrates the scope and limits of current models. Some familiarity with nonlinear programming theory and techniques is assumed. 1994 edition"--

Book Flow Control of Congested Networks

Download or read book Flow Control of Congested Networks written by Amedeo R. Odoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a compendium of papers presented during the NATO Workshop which took place in Capri, Italy, October 12-18, 1986 on the general subject of "Flow Control of Congested Networks: The Case of Data Processing and Transportation", and of which we acted as co-chairmen. The focus of the workshop was on flow control methodologies, as applied to preventing or reducing congestion on: (1) data communication networks; (2) urban transportation networks; and (3) air traffic control systems. The goals of the workshop included: review of the state-of-the-art of flow control methodologies, in general, and in each of the three application areas; identification of similarities and differences in the objective functions, modeling approaches and mathematics used in the three areas; examination of opportunities for "technology transfers" and for future interactions among researchers in the three areaso These goals were pursued through individual presentations of papers on current research by workshop participants and, in the cases of the second and third goals, through a number of open-ended discussion and-review sessions which were interspersed throughout the workshop's programmeD The full texts or extended summaries of all but a few of the papers given at the workshop are included in this volume.

Book Encyclopedia of Optimization

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Optimization written by Christodoulos A. Floudas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 4646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field. The second edition builds on the success of the former edition with more than 150 completely new entries, designed to ensure that the reference addresses recent areas where optimization theories and techniques have advanced. Particularly heavy attention resulted in health science and transportation, with entries such as "Algorithms for Genomics", "Optimization and Radiotherapy Treatment Design", and "Crew Scheduling".

Book Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization

Download or read book Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization written by Daniel Bienstock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2004, held in New York City, USA in June 2004. The 32 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. Among the topics addressed are vehicle routing, network management, mixed-integer programming, computational complexity, game theory, supply chain management, stochastic optimization problems, production scheduling, graph computations, computational graph theory, separation algorithms, local search, linear optimization, integer programming, graph coloring, packing, combinatorial optimization, routing, flow algorithms, 0/1 polytopes, and polyhedra.

Book Quadratic Programming and Affine Variational Inequalities

Download or read book Quadratic Programming and Affine Variational Inequalities written by Gue Myung Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quadratic programs and affine variational inequalities represent two fundamental, closely-related classes of problems in the t,heories of mathematical programming and variational inequalities, resp- tively. This book develops a unified theory on qualitative aspects of nonconvex quadratic programming and affine variational inequ- ities. The first seven chapters introduce the reader step-by-step to the central issues concerning a quadratic program or an affine variational inequality, such as the solution existence, necessary and sufficient conditions for a point to belong to the solution set, and properties of the solution set. The subsequent two chapters discuss briefly two concrete nlodels (linear fractional vector optimization and the traffic equilibrium problem) whose analysis can benefit a lot from using the results on quadratic programs and affine variational inequalities. There are six chapters devoted to the study of conti- ity and/or differentiability properties of the characteristic maps and functions in quadratic programs and in affine variational inequa- ties where all the components of the problem data are subject to perturbation. Quadratic programs and affine variational inequa- ties under linear perturbations are studied in three other chapters. One special feature of the presentation is that when a certain pr- erty of a characteristic map or function is investigated, we always try first to establish necessary conditions for it to hold, then we go on to study whether the obtained necessary conditions are suf- cient ones. This helps to clarify the structures of the two classes of problems under consideration.

Book Advances in Nonlinear Programming

Download or read book Advances in Nonlinear Programming written by Ya-xiang Yuan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 60 scientists and students attended the 96' International Conference on Nonlinear Programming, which was held September 2-5 at Institute of Compu tational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing (ICMSEC), Chi nese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 25 participants were from outside China and 35 from China. The conference was to celebrate the 60's birthday of Professor M.J.D. Powell (Fellow of Royal Society, University of Cambridge) for his many contributions to nonlinear optimization. On behalf of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president Professor Zhi hong Xu attended the opening ceremony of the conference to express his warm welcome to all the participants. After the opening ceremony, Professor M.J.D. Powell gave the keynote lecture "The use of band matrices for second derivative approximations in trust region methods". 13 other invited lectures on recent advances of nonlinear programming were given during the four day meeting: "Primal-dual methods for nonconvex optimization" by M. H. Wright (SIAM President, Bell Labs), "Interior point trajectories in semidefinite programming" by D. Goldfarb (Columbia University, Editor-in-Chief for Series A of Mathe matical Programming), "An approach to derivative free optimization" by A.

Book Algorithms and Interfaces for Structured Variational Inequalities and Their Extensions

Download or read book Algorithms and Interfaces for Structured Variational Inequalities and Their Extensions written by Youngdae Kim and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variational inequalities (VIs) are a generalization of nonlinear system of equations, so-called generalized equations. In addition to the system of equations, they subsume geometric first-order optimality conditions, nonlinear (linear) complementarity problems, and mixed complementarity problems. Representative applications are equilibrium problems such as generalized Nash equilibrium problems (GNEPs) and multiple optimization problems with equilibrium constraints (MOPECs). This thesis is concerned with algorithms and interfaces for structured variational inequalities and their extensions. Algorithms and interfaces are closely related to each other in a way that interfaces helping identify problem structures can lead to more robust and efficient algorithms, and structure-exploiting algorithms can guide us to design better structure-exposing interfaces. Interfaces exposing problem structures are described based on an extended mathematical programming (EMP) framework, where the framework allows us to formulate equilibrium problems in a natural and intuitive way in modeling languages, for example AMPL, GAMS, or Julia, without requiring the modeler to supply derivatives. Extensions to support some complicated structures such as shared constraints, shared variables, and quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs) are presented. Our interfaces generate a human-readable file from which we can easily identify high-level structure of the problem. We present an extension to PATH and two general-purpose solvers, PATHAVI and SELKIE, each of which utilizes problem structures, such as implicitly defined variables, polyhedral constraints, and groups of interacting agents, respectively. These structures are identified through our interfaces. An extension to PATH exploits implicitly defined variables by restoring their feasibility via projection using the implicit function theorem. Projection is performed in both their primal and dual spaces. PATHAVI is a structure-preserving solver for affine variational inequalities such that it follows a piecewise-linear (PL) path on a PL-manifold constructed using given polyhedral constraints without applying any reduction. This is a key contrast to the existing solver PATH which is oblivious of those constraints except for preprocessing purposes and a QR decomposition-based method that performs a reduction, thus destroying the structure, if there is nontrivial lineality space. SELKIE is a solver for equilibrium problems which enables various decomposition schemes based on groups of agents information to be instantiated in a flexible and adaptable way. Parallelism can be achieved either whenever independent groups of agents are detected or per user's request. A sub-solver for each sub-model can be chosen so that a highly efficient solver can be employed tailored to a certain problem type. Examples illustrating the efficiency and effectiveness of our extension and solvers are given. All our interfaces and solvers have been implemented and are available within GAMS/EMP.

Book Continuous Optimization and Variational Inequalities

Download or read book Continuous Optimization and Variational Inequalities written by Anurag Jayswal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed book provides a comprehensive coverage of theory and methods in the areas of continuous optimization and variational inequality. It describes theory and solution methods for optimization with smooth and non-smooth functions, for variational inequalities with single-valued and multivalued mappings, and for related classes such as mixed variational inequalities, complementarity problems, and general equilibrium problems. The emphasis is made on revealing generic properties of these problems that allow creation of efficient solution methods. Salient Features The book presents a deep, wide-ranging introduction to the theory of the optimal control of processes governed by optimization techniques and variational inequality Several solution methods are provided which will help the reader to develop various optimization tools for real-life problems which can be modeled by optimization techniques involving linear and nonlinear functions. The book focuses on most recent contributions in the nonlinear phenomena, which can appear in various areas of human activities. This book also presents relevant mathematics clearly and simply to help solve real life problems in diverse fields such as mechanical engineering, management, control behavior, traffic signal, industry, etc. This book is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and graduate students pursuing computer engineering and electrical engineering courses. Researchers, academicians and industry people will also find this book useful.

Book Mathematics of Operations Research

Download or read book Mathematics of Operations Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles of mathematical interest as well as operations research and management science.

Book Combined Relaxation Methods for Variational Inequalities

Download or read book Combined Relaxation Methods for Variational Inequalities written by Igor Konnov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variational inequalities proved to be a very useful tool for investigation and solution of various equilibrium type problems arising in Economics, Operations Research, Mathematical Physics, and Transportation. This book is devoted to a new general approach to constructing solution methods for variational inequalities, which was called the combined relaxation approach. This approach is rather flexible and allows one to construct various methods both for single-valued and for multi-valued variational inequalities, including nonlinear constrained problems. The other essential feature of the combined relaxation methods is that they are convergent under very mild assumptions. The book can be viewed as an attempt to discribe the existing combined relaxation methods as a whole.

Book Regional Science and Urban Economics

Download or read book Regional Science and Urban Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Introduction to Variational Inequalities and Their Applications

Download or read book An Introduction to Variational Inequalities and Their Applications written by David Kinderlehrer and published by SIAM. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unabridged republication of the 1980 text, an established classic in the field, is a resource for many important topics in elliptic equations and systems and is the first modern treatment of free boundary problems. Variational inequalities (equilibrium or evolution problems typically with convex constraints) are carefully explained in An Introduction to Variational Inequalities and Their Applications. They are shown to be extremely useful across a wide variety of subjects, ranging from linear programming to free boundary problems in partial differential equations. Exciting new areas like finance and phase transformations along with more historical ones like contact problems have begun to rely on variational inequalities, making this book a necessity once again.

Book Semismooth Newton Methods for Variational Inequalities and Constrained Optimization Problems in Function Spaces

Download or read book Semismooth Newton Methods for Variational Inequalities and Constrained Optimization Problems in Function Spaces written by Michael Ulbrich and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semismooth Newton methods are a modern class of remarkably powerful and versatile algorithms for solving constrained optimization problems with partial differential equations (PDEs), variational inequalities, and related problems. This book provides a comprehensive presentation of these methods in function spaces, striking a balance between thoroughly developed theory and numerical applications. Although largely self-contained, the book also covers recent developments in the field, such as state-constrained problems, and offers new material on topics such as improved mesh independence results. The theory and methods are applied to a range of practically important problems, including: optimal control of nonlinear elliptic differential equations, obstacle problems, and flow control of instationary Navier-Stokes fluids. In addition, the author covers adjoint-based derivative computation and the efficient solution of Newton systems by multigrid and preconditioned iterative methods.