Computational Optimization: A Tribute to Olvi Mangasarian Volume I Reprinted from COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND APPL edition

Marc Notes: A special issue of Computational optimization and applications, an international journal, volume 12, nos. 1/2/3 (1999)--Vol. I.; A special issue of Computational optimization and applications, an international journal, volume 13, nos. 1/2/3 (1999)--Vol. II.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Volume I. Guest Editorial; J.-S. Pang. Solving Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion Problems Via Semidefinite Programming; A. Y. Alfakih, et al. A Logarithmic-Quadratic Proximal Method for Variational Inequalities; A. Auslender, et al. A Note on Error Bounds for Convex and Nonconvex Programs; D. P. Bertsekas. Multicategory Classification by Support Vector Machines; E. J. Bredensteiner, K. P. Bennett. Quartic Barriers; R. W. Cottle. A Partitioned epsilon-Relaxation Algorithm for Separable Convex Network Flow Problems; R. De Leone, et al. On a Primal-Dual Analystic Center Cutting Plane Method for Variational Inequalities; M. Denault, J.-L. Goffin. A Shifted-Barrier Primal-Dual Algorithm Model for Linearly Constrained Optimization Problems; G. Di Pillo, et al. Arithmetic Continuation of Regular Roots of Formal Parametric Polynomial Systems; B. C. Eaves, U. G. Rothblum. Interfaces to PATH 3.0: Design, Implementation and Usage; M. C. Ferris, T. S. Munson. Existence and Limiting Behavior of Trajectories Associated with Po-equations; M. S. Gowda, M. A. Tawhid. Stabilized Sequential Quadratic Programming; W. W. Hager. Volume II. Guest Editorial; J.-S. Pang. The Clarke and Michel-Penot Subdifferentials of the Eigenvalues of a Symmetric Matrix; J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty, A. S. Lewis. QPECgen, a MATLAB Generator for Mathematical Programs with Quadratic Objectives and Affine Variational Inequality Constraints; H. Jiang, D. Ralph. Generalized Kojima-Functions and Lipschitz Stability of Critical Points; D. Klatte, B. Kummer. On Extensions of the Frank-Wolfe Theorems; Z.-Q. Luo, S. Zhang. Complementarity Constraint Qualifications and Simplified B-Stationarity Conditions for Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints; J.-S. Pang, M. Fukushima. First-Order Algorithms for Generalized Semi-Infinite Min-Max Problems; E. Polak, et al. An Optimal Way of Moving a Sequence of Points onto a Curve in Two Dimensions; M. J. D. Powell. Some Optimization Reformulations of the Extended Linear Complementarity Problem; M. V. Solodov. On NCP-Functions; D. Sun, L. Qi. Convergence and Error Bound for Perturbation of Linear Programs; P. Tseng. An Interior-Point Algorithm for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming; R. J. Vanderbei, D. F. Shanno. Testing Parallel Variable Transformation; E. Yamakawa, M. Fukushima. Publisher Marketing: This collection of papers covers a wide spectrum of computational optimization topics, representing a blend of familiar nonlinear programming topics and such novel paradigms as semidefinite programming and complementarity-constrained nonlinear programs. An informal categorization of the papers includes algorithmic advances for special classes of constrained optimization problems, analysis of linear and nonlinear programs, algorithmic advances, B-stationary points of mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints, applications of optimization, some mathematical topics and systems of nonlinear equations.

Contributor Bio:  Pang, Jong-Shi Jong-Shi Pang is the Caterpillar Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He won the 2003 George B. Dantzig Prize awarded jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and SIAM for his work on finite-dimensional variational inequalities.