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MP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Abstract. We present a null-space primal-dual interior-point algorithm for solving nonlinear optimization problems with general inequality and equality constraints. The algorithm a...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
2009
IEEE
— Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve network optimization problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow convergence rate prope...
SIAMJO
2002
13 years 7 months ago
2002
In this paper we study a Monte Carlo simulation based approach to stochastic discrete optimization problems. The basic idea of such methods is that a random sample is generated and...
SIAMCO
2000
13 years 7 months ago
2000
We study the asymptotic behavior at infinity of solutions of a second order evolution equation with linear damping and convex potential. The differential system is defined in a rea...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Spectral methods have been widely used in a broad range of application fields. One important object involved in such methods is the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a manifold. Indeed...