初始点任意的一个非线性优化的广义梯度投影法

广义投影算法的优点是避免转轴运算。它成功地给出了线性约束问题、初始点任意的只带非线性不等式约束问题，以及利用辅助规划来处理带等式与不等式约束问题的算法．后者完满地解决了投影算法对于非线性等式约束问题的处理，但要求满足不等式约束的初始点．本文据此利用广义投影与罚函数技巧给出了一个初始点任意的等式与不等式约束问题的算法，省去了求初始解的计算，并保持了上述方法的优点，证明了算法的全局收敛性     

某类等式约束二次规划问题的一个共轭方向法

本文提出了一种求解某类等式约束二次规划问题的一个共轭方向迭代法，并给出了算法的有限终止性证明．同时我们把此算法推广到不等式约束二次规划问题中，从而得到了一种求解不等式约束二次规划问题的算法．     

一个改进的SQP型算法

本文建立非线性等式和不等式约束规划问题的一个序列二次规划(SQP)型算法.算法的每次迭代只需解一个确实可解的二次规划，然后对其解进行简单的显式校正，便可产生关于罚函数是下降的搜索方向，克服Maratos效应.在适当的假设条件下，还论证了算法的全局收敛性和超级收敛性.     

非线性约束最优化一族超线性收敛的可行方法

本文建立求解非线性不等式约束最优化一族含参数的可行方法．算法每次迭代仅需解一个规模较小的二次规划．在一定的假设条件下,证明了算法族的全局收敛性和超线性收敛性．     

边界约束非凸二次规划问题的分枝定界方法

本文是研究带有边界约束非凸二次规划问题,我们把球约束二次规划问题和线性约束凸二次规划问题作为子问题,分明引用了它们的一个求整体最优解的有效算法,我们提出几种定界的紧、松驰策略,给出了求解原问题整体最优解的分枝定界算法,并证明了该算法的收敛性,不同的定界组合就可以产生不同的分枝定界算法,最后我们简单讨论了一般有界凸域上非凸二次规划问题求整体最优解的分枝与定界思想。     

线性约束三次规划问题的全局最优性必要条件和最优化算法

讨论了带线性不等式约束三次规划问题的最优性条件和最优化算法. 首先, 讨论了带有线性不等式约束三次规划问题的 全局最优性必要条件. 然后, 利用全局最优性必要条件, 设计了解线性约束三次规划问题的一个新的局部最优化算法(强局部最优化算法). 再利用辅助函数和所给出的新的局部最优化算法, 设计了带有线性不等式约束三 规划问题的全局最优化算法. 最后, 数值算例说明给出的最优化算法是可行的、有效的.     

一个修正的罚函数方法

本文通过给出的一个修正的罚函数,把约束非线性规划问题转化为无约束非线性规划问题.我们讨论了原问题与相应的罚问题局部最优解和全局最优解之间的关系,并给出了乘子参数和罚参数与迭代点之间的关系,最后给出了一个简单算法,数值试验表明算法是有效的.     

一类DC规划问题的分支定界算法

本文针对一类带有箱子和线性不等式约束的特殊DC规划问题,提出了一种分支定界算法.首先将原问题转化为其等价问题,然后利用目标函数的特点将等价问题松弛为凸规划问题,通过求解一系列凸规划问题得到原问题的最优解,最后给出算法的收敛性证明.数值实验表明该算法是可行有效的.     

带有不等式约束的非线性规划问题的一个精确增广Lagrange函数

对求解带有不等式约束的非线性非凸规划问题的一个精确增广Lagrange函数进行了研究．在适当的假设下,给出了原约束问题的局部极小点与增广Lagrange函数,在原问题变量空间上的无约束局部极小点之间的对应关系．进一步地,在对全局解的一定假设下,还提供了原约束问题的全局最优解与增广Lagrange函数,在原问题变量空间的一个紧子集上的全局最优解之间的一些对应关系．因此,从理论上讲,采用该文给出的增广Lagrange函数作为辅助函数的乘子法,可以求得不等式约束非线性规划问题的最优解和对应的Lagrange乘子．     

求非线性规划的非可行滤子无二次子规划方法

本文研究了不等式约束的非线性规划问题.利用带滤子的无二次子规划(QP-free)非可行域方法,构造一个等价于原约束问题的一阶KKT条件的非光滑方程组,给出解这个方程组的迭代算法,并获得算法的全局收敛性.     

线性比式和规划问题的输出空间分支定界算法

本文旨在针对线性比式和规划这一NP-Hard非线性规划问题提出新的全局优化算法.首先,通过引入p个辅助变量把原问题等价的转化为一个非线性规划问题,这个非线性规划问题的目标函数是乘积和的形式并给原问题增加了p个新的非线性约束,再通过构造凸凹包络的技巧对等价问题的目标函数和约束条件进行相应的线性放缩,构成等价问题的一个下界线性松弛规划问题,从而提出了一个求解原问题的分支定界算法,并证明了算法的收敛性.最后,通过数值结果比较表明所提出的算法是可行有效的.     

An unconstrained dual approach to solving Karmarkar-type linear programs using conventional barrier functions

This paper proposes an unconstrained dual approach and an efficient algorithm for solving Karmarkar-type linear programming problems. Conventional barrier functions are incorporated as a perturbation term in the derivation of the associated duality theory. An optimal solution of the original linear program can be obtained by solving a sequence of unconstrained concave programs, or be approximated by solving one such dual program with a sufficiently small perturbation parameter. A globally convergent curved-search algorithm with a quadratic rate of convergence is designed for this purpose. Based on our testing results, we find that the computational procedure is very efficient and can be a viable approach for solving linear programming problems.     

Conservative allocation models for outbound containers in container terminals

This paper examines location assignment for outbound containers in container terminals. It is an extension to the previous modeling work of Kim et al. (2000) and Zhang et al. (2010). The previous model was an “optimistic” handling way and gave a moderate punishment for placing a lighter container onto the top of a stack already loaded with heavier containers. Considering that the original model neglected the stack height and the state-changing magnitude information when interpreting the punishment parameter and hid too much information about the specific configurations for a given stack representation, we propose two new “conservative” allocation models in this paper. One considers the stack height and the state-changing magnitude information by reinterpreting the punishment parameter and the other further considers the specific configurations for a given stack representation. Solution qualities for the “optimistic” and the two “conservative” allocation models are compared on two performance indicators. The numerical experiments indicate that both the first and second “conservative” allocation models outperform the original model in terms of the two performance indicators. In addition, to overcome computational difficulties encountered by the dynamic programming algorithm for large-scale problems, an approximate dynamic programming algorithm is presented as well.     

求解中大规模复杂凸二次整数规划问题的新型分枝定界算法

针对现有分枝定界算法在求解高维复杂二次整数规划问题时所存在的诸多不足，本文通过充分挖掘二次整数规划问题的结构特性来设计选择分枝变量与分枝方向的新方法，并将HNF算法与原问题松弛问题的求解相结合来寻求较好的初始整数可行解，由此导出可用于有效求解中大规模复杂二次整数规划问题的改进型分枝定界算法．数值试验结果表明所给算法大大改进了已有相关的分枝定界算法，并具有较好的稳定性与广泛的适用性．     

A new algorithm for multi-dimensional dynamic programming problems

The new algorithm presented here solves medium size multi-dimensional dynamic programming problems in a relatively short computational time with no fast-memory restraints. The algorithm converges to the global optimal solution under some differentiability and convexity assumptions.The procedure is to solve a succession of dynamic programming problems, the state sets of which are limited to only a very small subset of the original state space. The interrelated definition of state sets for successive subproblems facilitates an algorithmic convergence while moving the subsets to contain the optimal states at the end.     

An improved sequential quadratic programming algorithm for solving general nonlinear programming problems

In this paper, a class of general nonlinear programming problems with inequality and equality constraints is discussed. Firstly, the original problem is transformed into an associated simpler equivalent problem with only inequality constraints. Then, inspired by the ideals of the sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method and the method of system of linear equations (SLE), a new type of SQP algorithm for solving the original problem is proposed. At each iteration, the search direction is generated by the combination of two directions, which are obtained by solving an always feasible quadratic programming (QP) subproblem and a SLE, respectively. Moreover, in order to overcome the Maratos effect, the higher-order correction direction is obtained by solving another SLE. The two SLEs have the same coefficient matrices, and we only need to solve the one of them after a finite number of iterations. By a new line search technique, the proposed algorithm possesses global and superlinear convergence under some suitable assumptions without the strict complementarity. Finally, some comparative numerical results are reported to show that the proposed algorithm is effective and promising.     

AN EFFECTIVE CONTINUOUS ALGORITHM FOR APPROXIMATE SOLUTIONS OF LARGE SCALE MAX-CUT PROBLEMS

An effective continuous algorithm is proposed to find approximate solutions of NP-hardmax-cut problems.The algorithm relaxes the max-cut problem into a continuous nonlinearprogramming problem by replacing n discrete constraints in the original problem with onesingle continuous constraint.A feasible direction method is designed to solve the resultingnonlinear programming problem.The method employs only the gradient evaluations ofthe objective function,and no any matrix calculations and no line searches are required.This greatly reduces the calculation cost of the method,and is suitable for the solutionof large size max-cut problems.The convergence properties of the proposed method toKKT points of the nonlinear programming are analyzed.If the solution obtained by theproposed method is a global solution of the nonlinear programming problem,the solutionwill provide an upper bound on the max-cut value.Then an approximate solution to themax-cut problem is generated from the solution of the nonlinear programming and providesa lower bound on the max-cut value.Numerical experiments and comparisons on somemax-cut test problems(small and large size)show that the proposed algorithm is efficientto get the exact solutions for all small test problems and well satisfied solutions for mostof the large size test problems with less calculation costs.     

A NEW INEXACT SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM

This paper represents an inexact sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm which can solve nonlinear programming (NLP) problems. An inexact solution of the quadratic programming subproblem is determined by a projection and contraction method such that only matrix-vector product is required. Some truncated criteria are chosen such that the algorithm is suitable to large scale NLP problem. The global convergence of the algorithm is proved.     

A relaxed cutting plane method for semi-infinite semi-definite programming

In this paper, we develop two discretization algorithms with a cutting plane scheme for solving combined semi-infinite and semi-definite programming problems, i.e., a general algorithm when the parameter set is a compact set and a typical algorithm when the parameter set is a box set in the m-dimensional space. We prove that the accumulation point of the sequence points generated by the two algorithms is an optimal solution of the combined semi-infinite and semi-definite programming problem under suitable assumption conditions. Two examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the typical algorithm.     

An implementable algorithm for the optimal design centering,tolerancing, and tuning problem

An implementable master algorithm for solving optimal design centering, tolerancing, and tuning problems is presented. This master algorithm decomposes the original nondifferentiable optimization problem into a sequence of ordinary nonlinear programming problems. The master algorithm generates sequences with accumulation points that are feasible and satisfy a new optimality condition, which is shown to be stronger than the one previously used for these problems.This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (RANN), Grant No. ENV-76-04264, and by the Joint Services Electronic Program, Contract No. F44620-76-C-0100.