Abstract. We show that an asymptotic summation method, recently proposed by the authors, can be conveniently applied to slowly convergent power series whose coefficients are ration...
Directional Newton methods for functions f of n variables are shown to converge, under standard assumptions, to a solution of f(x) = 0. The rate of convergence is quadratic, for ne...
This paper presents a Newton-like algorithm for solving systems of rank constrained linear matrix inequalities. Though local quadratic convergence of the algorithm is not a priori...
The fundamental dichotomy in evolutionary algorithms is that between exploration and exploitation. Recently, several algorithms [8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 20] have been introduced that gu...
Monte Carlo methods have been used extensively in the area of stochastic programming. As with other methods that involve a level of uncertainty, theoretical properties are required...