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In this paper, we propose two algorithms for solving convex optimization problems with linear ascending constraints. When the objective function is separable, we propose a dual method which terminates in a finite number of iterations. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Zizhuo Wang

Difference of Convex (DC) optimization problems have objective functions that are differences between two convex functions. Representative ways of solving these problems are the proximal DC algorithms, which require that the convex part of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Shota Takahashi , Mituhiro Fukuda , Mirai Tanaka

We consider a minimization problem of the form $P(\varphi, g, h):$ $$\min\left\{f(x):= \varphi(x) + g(x) - h(x) \colon x \in \mathbb{R}^n\right\},$$ where $\varphi$ is a differentiable function and $g,$ $h$ are convex functions, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Shuang Wu , Bui Van Dinh , Liguo Jiao , Do Sang Kim , Wensheng Zhu

In this article, we use the monotonic optimization approach to propose an outcome-space outer approximation by copolyblocks for solving strictly quasiconvex multiobjective programming problems and especially in the case that the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Tran Ngoc Thang , Vijender Kumar Solanki , Tuan Anh Dao , Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh , Hai V. Pham

In this paper, we study possible extensions of the main ideas and methods of constrained DC optimization to the case of nonlinear semidefinite programming problems and more general nonlinear and nonsmooth cone constrained optimization…

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We study geometric duality for convex vector optimization problems. For a primal problem with a $q$-dimensional objective space, we formulate a dual problem with a $(q+1)$-dimensional objective space. Consequently, different from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Çağın Ararat , Simay Tekgül , Firdevs Ulus

In this paper, we study a family of non-convex and possibly non-smooth inf-projection minimization problems, where the target objective function is equal to minimization of a joint function over another variable. This problem include…

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In this work, we consider a class of convex optimization problems in a real Hilbert space that can be solved by performing a single projection, i.e., by projecting an infeasible point onto the feasible set. Our results improve those…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Hoa T. Bui , Regina S. Burachik , Evgeni A. Nurminski , Matthew K. Tam

In this paper, we consider a class of mixed integer programming problems (MIPs) whose objective functions are DC functions, that is, functions representable in terms of the difference of two convex functions. These MIPs contain a very wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Takayuki Okuno , Yoshiko T. Ikebe

The multi-objective optimization is to optimize several objective functions over a common feasible set. Since the objectives usually do not share a common optimizer, people often consider (weakly) Pareto points. This paper studies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Jiawang Nie , Zi Yang

We consider the problem of decomposing a multivariate polynomial as the difference of two convex polynomials. We introduce algebraic techniques which reduce this task to linear, second order cone, and semidefinite programming. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

This paper is a follow-up to a previous work where we defined and generated the set of all possible compromises of multilevel multiobjective linear programming problems (ML-MOLPP). In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Mustapha Kaci , Sonia Radjef

A quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP) is an optimization problem in which the objective function is a quadratic function and the feasible region is defined by quadratic constraints. Solving non-convex QCQP to global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Asteroide Santana , Santanu S. Dey

We consider continuous linear programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with a constant coefficient matrix, linear right hand side functions and linear cost coefficient functions, where we search for optimal solutions in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Evgeny Shindin , Gideon Weiss

In this paper we consider minimization of a difference-of-convex (DC) function with and without linear constraints. We first study a smooth approximation of a generic DC function, termed difference-of-Moreau-envelopes (DME) smoothing, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Kaizhao Sun , Xu Andy Sun

Disjointly constrained multilinear programming concerns the problem of maximizing a multilinear function on the product of finitely many disjoint polyhedra. While maximizing a linear function on a polytope (linear programming) is known to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Kai Kellner

Feasibility problem aims to find a common point of two or more closed (convex) sets whose intersection is nonempty. In the literature, projection based algorithms are widely adopted to solve the problem, such as the method of alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuting Shen , Jingwei Liang

Optimization problems with set-valued objective functions arise in contexts such as multi-stage optimization with vector-valued objectives. The aim is to identify an optimizer -- a feasible point with an optimal objective value -- based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Andreas Löhne

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang