A General Alternative Procedure for Solving Negative Degree of Difficulty Problems in Geometric Programming

The degree of difficulty is an important concept in classical geometric programming theory. The dual problem is often infeasible when the degree of difficulty is negative and little has been published on this topic. In this paper, an alternative procedure is developed to find the optimal solution for the posynomial geometric programming problem with a negative degree of difficulty. First an equivalent problem was constructed with a positive degree of difficulty and the general posynomial geometric programming problem was solved using an original method previously developed by the authors. This method avoids the difficulty of non-differentiability of the dual objective function in the classical methods classified as dual. It also avoids the problem that appears when the feasible region for the dual problem is formed by an inconsistent system of linear equations.     

广义几何规划的全局优化算法

对许多工程设计中常用的广义几何规划问题(GGP)提出一种确定性全局优化算法,该算法利用目标和约束函数的线性下界估计,建立GGP的松弛线性规划(RLP),从而将原来非凸问题(GGP)的求解过程转化为求解一系列线性规划问题(RLP).通过可行域的连续细分以及一系列线性规划的解,提出的分枝定界算法收敛到GGP的全局最优解,且数值例子表明了算法的可行性.     

A Branch-and-Bound Approach for Solving a Class of Generalized Semi-infinite Programming Problems

A nonconvex generalized semi-infinite programming problem is considered, involving parametric max-functions in both the objective and the constraints. For a fixed vector of parameters, the values of these parametric max-functions are given as optimal values of convex quadratic programming problems. Assuming that for each parameter the parametric quadratic problems satisfy the strong duality relation, conditions are described ensuring the uniform boundedness of the optimal sets of the dual problems w.r.t. the parameter. Finally a branch-and-bound approach is suggested transforming the problem of finding an approximate global minimum of the original nonconvex optimization problem into the solution of a finite number of convex problems.     

求广义线性比试和问题全局解的新方法

为确定广义线性比式和规划问题(GFP)的全局最优解,提出一个新的分支定界方法.在算法中,分支过程采用单纯形对分规则,且界的估计通过一些线性规划问题的求解完成.给出算法的收敛性证明.数值试验结果显示算法是有效可行的.     

带自由变量的广义几何规划全局求解的新算法

带自由变量的广义几何规划(FGGP)问题广泛出现在证券投资和工程设计等实际问题中.利用等价转换及对目标函数和约束函数的凸下界估计,提出一种求(FGGP)问题全局解的凸松弛方法.与已有方法相比,方法可处理符号项中含有更多变量的(FGGP)问题,且在最后形成的凸松弛问题中含有更少的变量和约束,从而在计算上更容易实现.最后数值实验表明文中方法是可行和有效的.     

Solving Standard Quadratic Optimization Problems via Linear, Semidefinite and Copositive Programming

The problem of minimizing a (non-convex) quadratic function over the simplex (the standard quadratic optimization problem) has an exact convex reformulation as a copositive programming problem. In this paper we show how to approximate the optimal solution by approximating the cone of copositive matrices via systems of linear inequalities, and, more refined, linear matrix inequalities (LMI's). In particular, we show that our approach leads to a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the standard quadratic optimzation problem. This is an improvement on the previous complexity result by Nesterov who showed that a 2/3-approximation is always possible. Numerical examples from various applications are provided to illustrate our approach.     

广义几何规划的压缩共轭梯度路径非单调信赖域算法(英文)

In this paper,on the basis of making full use of the characteristics of unconstrained generalized geometric programming（GGP）,we establish a nonmonotonic trust region algorithm via the conjugate path for solving unconstrained GGP problem.A new type of condensation problem is presented,then a particular conjugate path is constructed for the problem,along which we get the approximate solution of the problem by nonmonotonic trust region algorithm,and further prove that the algorithm has global convergence and quadratic convergence properties.     

Treating Free Variables in Generalized Geometric Global Optimization Programs

Generalized geometric programming (GGP) problems occur frequently in engineering design and management. Recently, some exponential-based decomposition methods [Maranas and Floudas, 1997,Computers and Chemical Engineering 21(4), 351–370; Floudas et al., 1999 , Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 5–105; Floudas, 2000 Deterministic Global Optimizaion: Theory, Methods and Application, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 257–306] have been developed for GGP problems. These methods can only handle problems with positive variables, and are incapable of solving more general GGP problems. This study proposes a technique for treating free (i.e., positive, zero or negative) variables in GGP problems. Computationally effective convexification rules are also provided for signomial terms with three variables.     

Generation of Degenerate Linear Programming Problems

We present a method for constructing linear programming problems with randomly generated data. Besides the number of variables and constraints, the dimensions of the primal and dual faces are given. We show that, for problems in which the constraint matrix is carelessly constructed with random entries, with probability one only one between primal degeneracy and dual degeneracy appears.     

几何规划问题的一种分枝定界方法

本文通过指数函数变换，把解几何规划GP（Ω）等价地转化为另外一个非线优化问题NLP（－↑Ω），根据问题（－↑Ω）的结构特征，构造它的一个线性规划松驰上确定它的最优值的一个下界，由此给出问题GP（Ω）的一个新的分枝定界算法。最后证明了这个算法是收敛的。     

Solving Bilevel Linear Programs Using Multiple Objective Linear Programming

We present an algorithm for solving bilevel linear programs that uses simplex pivots on an expanded tableau. The algorithm uses the relationship between multiple objective linear programs and bilevel linear programs along with results for minimizing a linear objective over the efficient set for a multiple objective problem. Results in multiple objective programming needed are presented. We report computational experience demonstrating that this approach is more effective than a standard branch-and-bound algorithm when the number of leader variables is small.     

Combining Constraint Programming and Linear Programming on an Example of Bus Driver Scheduling

This paper provides details of a successful application where the Column Generation algorithm was used to combine Constraint Programming and Linear Programming. In the past, constraint programming and linear programming were considered to be two competing technologies that solved similar types of problems. Both these technologies had their strengths and weaknesses. This paper shows that the two technologies can be combined together to extract the strengths of both these technologies. Details of a real-world application to optimize bus driver duties is given here. This system was developed by ILOG for a major software house in Japan using ILOG-Solver and ILOG-CPLEX, constraint programming and linear programming C/C++ libraries.     

应用模糊目标规划方法求解多目标线性分式规划问题

针对多目标分式线性规划问题,提出利用上(下)界表示目标期望水平及允许上(下)限,且利用一阶泰勒公式逼近隶属函数,将多目标分式规划转化为线性规划问题,并用单纯形法求解,通过实验算例说明了所提出的方法的有效性.     

一个解非线性0-1整数规划问题基于罚函数的混合粒子群优化算法

利用罚函数思想把非线性0-1整数规划问题转化为无约束最优化问题,然后把粒子群优化和罚函数方法结合构造出一个基于罚函数的混合粒子群优化算法,数值结果表明所提出的算法是有效的.     

关于非线性多目标规划问题非劣解解法的探讨

非线性多目标规划是一类复杂的规划问题，由于其往往没有最优解，因此求其非劣解具有重要的意义。本首先探讨了无约束条件下非线性多目标规划的解法，然后提出了有约束条件下非线性多目标规划的一种解法。所述方法具有一定的普遍意义。     

Relaxed Cutting Plane Method for Solving Linear Semi-Infinite Programming Problems

One of the major computational tasks of using the traditional cutting plane approach to solve linear semi-infinite programming problems lies in finding a global optimizer of a nonlinear and nonconvex program. This paper generalizes the Gustafson and Kortanek scheme to relax this requirement. In each iteration, the proposed method chooses a point at which the infinite constraints are violated to a degree, rather than a point at which the violations are maximized. A convergence proof of the proposed scheme is provided. Some computational results are included. An explicit algorithm which allows the unnecessary constraints to be dropped in each iteration is also introduced to reduce the size of computed programs.     

求解线性二层规划问题的多表旋转算法

多表旋转算法是一种基于旋转算法来求解线性二层规划问题的方法,通过表格组合还可以求解线性多层规划、以及线性一主多从有关联的stackelberg-nash均衡等问题,求解的思想是使用旋转算法,在多个主体间通过约束传递达到均衡。通过算例显示该方法可以迅速地算出局部最优解,如果问题的诱导域是连通的,还可以计算出全局最优解。     

Solving Problems with Min-Type Functions by Disjunctive Programming

We consider applications of disjunctive programming to global optimization and problems with equilibrium constraints. We propose a modification of the algorithm of F. Beaumont for disjunctive programming problems and show its numerical efficiency.     

Fuzzy正项几何规划的分类及相应类的性质

本文将Ｆｕｚｚｙ正项几何规划分成三类，并分别探讨了其相容性与Ｆｕｚｚｙ最优解问题。     

整数规划的布谷鸟算法

布谷鸟搜索算法是一种新型的智能优化算法．本文采用截断取整的方法将基本布谷鸟搜索算法用于求解整数规划问题．通过对标准测试函数进行仿真实验并与粒子群算法进行比较,结果表明本文所提算法比粒子群算法拥有更好的性能和更强的全局寻优能力,可以作为一种实用方法用于求解整数规划问题．