一种基于进化算法的非线性两层规划的快速全局优化方法

由于非线性两层规划具有非凸性、NP-难等计算困难，高效的算法并不多见。本文设计了一种新的进化算法，基于此进化算法提出了求解带有一重或多重下层的非线性两层规划的高效算法。该算法充分利用两层规划的结构特点。最后，给出了六个不同类型的算例，数值结果表明，本算法是快速和有效的。     

On a pair of nonlinear mixed integer programming problems

We consider maximin and minimax nonlinear mixed integer programming problems which are nonsymmetric in duality sense. Under weaker (pseudo-convex/pseudo-concave) assumptions, we show that the supremum infimum of the maximin problem is greater than or equal to the infimum supremum of the minimax problem. As a particular case, this result reduces to the weak duality theorem for minimax and symmetric dual nonlinear mixed integer programming problems. Further, this is used to generalize available results on minimax and symmetric duality in nonlinear mixed integer programming.     

Some Test Problems on Applications of Wu＇s Method in Nonlinear Programming Problems

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TRUST REGION METHOD IN NEURAL NETWORK

1.IntroductionHopfieldandTank[5]presentedamodeltosolvetravellingsalesmanproblem,thusinitiatingtheapplicationofneuralnetwork(NN)inthefieldofoptimization.SincethenmanyNNmodelshavebeenproposedtosolvelinearprogramming(LP)problems(13,8,11,14,15])andquadraticprogramming(oP)problems([1,8,20]),asLPandoPhavefundamentalimportanceinthetheoryandpracticeofoptimization.Therewerealsoafewmodelsforgeneralnonlinearprogramming(NP)problem([2,6,9,18]).InthispaperwewillpresentaHopfield-typeneuralnetworkmodelw…     

Reductions of interval nonlinear programming problem

A general nonlinear programming problem with interval functions is considered. Two reductions of this problem to the deterministic nonlinear programming problem are proposed, and illustrative examples are discussed.     

A sparse nonlinear optimization algorithm

One of the most effective numerical techniques for solving nonlinear programming problems is the sequential quadratic programming approach. Many large nonlinear programming problems arise naturally in data fitting and when discretization techniques are applied to systems described by ordinary or partial differential equations. Problems of this type are characterized by matrices which are large and sparse. This paper describes a nonlinear programming algorithm which exploits the matrix sparsity produced by these applications. Numerical experience is reported for a collection of trajectory optimization problems with nonlinear equality and inequality constraints.The authors wish to acknowledge the insightful contributions of Dr. William Huffman.     

Computing exact solution to nonlinear integer programming: Convergent Lagrangian and objective level cut method

In this paper, we propose a convergent Lagrangian and objective level cut method for computing exact solution to two classes of nonlinear integer programming problems: separable nonlinear integer programming and polynomial zero-one programming. The method exposes an optimal solution to the convex hull of a revised perturbation function by successively reshaping or re-confining the perturbation function. The objective level cut is used to eliminate the duality gap and thus to guarantee the convergence of the Lagrangian method on a revised domain. Computational results are reported for a variety of nonlinear integer programming problems and demonstrate that the proposed method is promising in solving medium-size nonlinear integer programming problems.     

Interior-point methods for nonconvex nonlinear programming: Jamming and numerical testing

The paper considers an example of Wächter and Biegler which is shown to converge to a nonstationary point for the standard primal–dual interior-point method for nonlinear programming. The reason for this failure is analyzed and a heuristic resolution is discussed. The paper then characterizes the performance of LOQO, a line-search interior-point code, on a large test set of nonlinear programming problems. Specific types of problems which can cause LOQO to fail are identified.Research of the first and third authors supported by NSF grant DMS-9870317, ONR grant N00014-98-1-0036.Research of the second author supported by NSF grant DMS-9805495.     

Lagrangean decomposition for integer nonlinear programming with linear constraints

We present a Lagrangean decomposition to study integer nonlinear programming problems. Solving the dual Lagrangean relaxation we have to obtain at each iteration the solution of a nonlinear programming with continuous variables and an integer linear programming. Decreasing iteratively the primal—dual gap we propose two algorithms to treat the integer nonlinear programming.This work was partially supported by CNPq and FINEP.     

非线性-线性二层规划问题的罚函数方法

利用下层问题的K-T最优性条件将下层为线性规划的一类非线性二层规划转化成相应的单层规划,同时取下层问题的互补条件为罚项,构造了该类非线性二层规划的罚问题.通过对相应罚问题性质的分析,得到了该类非线性二层规划问题的最优性条件,同时设计了该类二层规划问题的求解方法.数值结果表明该方法是可行、有效的.     

非线性规划的凸化,凹化和单调化

本文提出了一个指数型凸化,凹化变换,并证明了单调非线性规划总能变换成相应的凹规划或凸规划.还证明了带某种类型线性或非线性约束的非线性规划在适当条件下能变换成单调非线性规划.     

Solving Convex MINLP Optimization Problems Using a Sequential Cutting Plane Algorithm

In this article we look at a new algorithm for solving convex mixed integer nonlinear programming problems. The algorithm uses an integrated approach, where a branch and bound strategy is mixed with solving nonlinear programming problems at each node of the tree. The nonlinear programming problems, at each node, are not solved to optimality, rather one iteration step is taken at each node and then branching is applied. A Sequential Cutting Plane (SCP) algorithm is used for solving the nonlinear programming problems by solving a sequence of linear programming problems. The proposed algorithm generates explicit lower bounds for the nodes in the branch and bound tree, which is a significant improvement over previous algorithms based on QP techniques. Initial numerical results indicate that the described algorithm is a competitive alternative to other existing algorithms for these types of problems.     

Generalized Nonlinear Lagrangian Formulation for Bounded Integer Programming

Several nonlinear Lagrangian formulations have been recently proposed for bounded integer programming problems. While possessing an asymptotic strong duality property, these formulations offer a success guarantee for the identification of an optimal primal solution via a dual search. Investigating common features of nonlinear Lagrangian formulations in constructing a nonlinear support for nonconvex piecewise constant perturbation function, this paper proposes a generalized nonlinear Lagrangian formulation of which many existing nonlinear Lagrangian formulations become special cases.     

A discrete dynamic convexized method for nonlinear integer programming

In this paper, we consider the box constrained nonlinear integer programming problem. We present an auxiliary function, which has the same discrete global minimizers as the problem. The minimization of the function using a discrete local search method can escape successfully from previously converged discrete local minimizers by taking increasing values of a parameter. We propose an algorithm to find a global minimizer of the box constrained nonlinear integer programming problem. The algorithm minimizes the auxiliary function from random initial points. We prove that the algorithm can converge asymptotically with probability one. Numerical experiments on a set of test problems show that the algorithm is efficient and robust.     

一类神经网络模型的稳定性

本文将一种求解凸规划问题的神经网络模型推广到求解一般的非凸非线性规划问题．理论分析表明;在适当的条件下,本文提出的求解非凸非线性规划问题的神经网络模型的平衡点是渐近稳定的,对应于非线性规划问题的局部最优解     

Finding all Solutions of Systems of Nonlinear Equations Using the Dual Simplex Method

An efficient algorithm is proposed for finding all solutions of nonlinear equations using linear programming (LP). This algorithm is based on a simple test (termed the LP test) for nonexistence of a solution to a system of nonlinear equations in a given region. In the conventional LP test, the system of nonlinear equations is transformed into an LP problem, to which the simplex method is applied. However, although the LP test is very powerful, it requires many pivotings for each region. In this paper, we use the dual simplex method in the LP test, which makes the average number of pivotings per region much smaller (less than one, for example) and makes the algorithm very efficient. By numerical examples, it is shown that the proposed algorithm can find all solutions of systems of 200 nonlinear equations in practical computation time.     

约束非线性规划的神经网络算法

神经网络具有内在大规模并行运算和快速收敛特性,它在最优化技术上的运用近年来受到广泛的重视。本提出一个新的求解一般约束非线性规划的神经网络模型,它具有全局收敛性和广泛的适用性,是求解一般非线性规划问题的新工具。理论分析和模拟计算均表明了模型的有效性。     

灰色非线性约束规划的改进引力搜索算法求解

灰色非线性约束规划是灰色系统中一个重要的优化问题.为求解灰色非线性约束规划,给出了一种改进引力搜索算法的求解方法.实验结果表明改进引力搜索算法对求解灰色非线性约束规划可行有效.     

An accelerated multiplier method for nonlinear programming

This paper describes an accelerated multiplier method for solving the general nonlinear programming problem. The algorithm poses a sequence of unconstrained optimization problems. The unconstrained problems are solved using a rank-one recursive algorithm described in an earlier paper. Multiplier estimates are obtained by minimizing the error in the Kuhn-Tucker conditions using a quadratic programming algorithm. The convergence of the sequence of unconstrained problems is accelerated by using a Newton-Raphson extrapolation process. The numerical effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated on a relatively large set of test problems.This work was supported by the US Air Force under Contract No. F04701-74-C-0075.     

Generalized Convex Disjunctive Programming: Nonlinear Convex Hull Relaxation

Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) has been introduced recently as an alternative to mixed-integer programming for representing discrete/continuous optimization problems. The basic idea of GDP consists of representing these problems in terms of sets of disjunctions in the continuous space, and logic propositions in terms of Boolean variables. In this paper we consider GDP problems involving convex nonlinear inequalities in the disjunctions. Based on the work by Stubbs and Mehrotra [21] and Ceria and Soares [6], we propose a convex nonlinear relaxation of the nonlinear convex GDP problem that relies on the convex hull of each of the disjunctions that is obtained by variable disaggregation and reformulation of the inequalities. The proposed nonlinear relaxation is used to formulate the GDP problem as a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problem that is shown to be tighter than the conventional big-M formulation. A disjunctive branch and bound method is also presented, and numerical results are given for a set of test problems.