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Our recent study (Lin and Ohtsuka, 2024) proposed a new penalty method for solving mathematical programming with complementarity constraints (MPCC). This method first reformulates MPCC as a parameterized nonlinear programming called gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Kangyu Lin , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

When considering an unconstrained minimization problem, a standard approach is to solve the optimality system with a Newton method possibly preconditioned by, e.g., nonlinear elimination. In this contribution, we argue that nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Gabriele Ciaremalla , Tommaso Vanzan

In this paper, we are dealing with constrained vector optimisation problems where the objective function acts between real linear-topological spaces. Our aim is to study the relationships between the sets of properly efficient solutions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Paul Schmölling , Christian Günther , Christiane Tammer , Elisabeth Köbis

The aim of the paper is to show that the solutions to variational problems with non-standard growth conditions satisfy a corresponding variational inequality without any smallness assumptions on the gap between growth and coercitivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Michela Eleuteri , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

In this paper, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of error bounds at infinity for lower semicontinuous inequality systems. We also show that the existence of an error bound at infinity of constraint systems plays an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Nguyen Van Tuyen

We analyze an optimal stopping problem with a series of inequality-type and equality-type expectation constraints in a general non-Markovian framework. We show that the optimal stopping problem with expectation constraints (OSEC) in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Erhan Bayraktar , Song Yao

In this article, we derive first-order necessary optimality conditions for a constrained optimal control problem formulated in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. To this end, we introduce a new notion of localised metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for parabolic partial differential equations with pointwise in time switching constraints on the control. A standard approach to treat constraints in nonlinear optimization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Christian Clason , Armin Rund , Karl Kunisch

The performance of evolutionary algorithms can be heavily undermined when constraints limit the feasible areas of the search space. For instance, while Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy is one of the most efficient algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-08 A. Maesani , G. Iacca , D. Floreano

In this paper, we propose a a gradient-based neural network model to solve the mathematical programming problems with complementary constraints (MPCC). In order to facilitate tractable optimization, the problem MPCC is transformed via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Anurag Jayswal , Ajeet Kumar

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving continuous nonlinear-equality-constrained optimization problems where the objective and constraint functions are defined by expectations or averages over large, finite numbers of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Frank E. Curtis , Lingjun Guo , Daniel P. Robinson

One of the most important optimality conditions to aid to solve a vector optimization problem is the first-order necessary optimality condition that generalizes the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition. However, to obtain the sufficient optimality…

An optimal control problem for semilinear parabolic partial differential equations is considered. The control variable appears in the leading term of the equation. Necessary conditions for optimal controls are established by the method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Hongwei Lou

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the weak efficient solutions, the efficient solutions, and the isolated efficient solutions of a given vector optimization problem with finitely many convex objective functions and infinitely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Miguel A. Goberna , Nader Kanzi

In this paper, the mathematical programs with vanishing constraints or MPVC are considered. We prove that an MPVC-tailored penalty function, introduced in [5], is still exact under a very weak and new constraint qualification. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Triloki Nath , Abeka Khare

Based on the tools of limiting variational analysis, we derive a sequential necessary optimality condition for nonsmooth mathematical programs which holds without any additional assumptions. In order to ensure that stationary points in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Patrick Mehlitz

In this paper, we prove the existence of minimizers of a class of multi-constrained variational problems. We consider systems involving a nonlinearity that does not satisfy compactness, monotonicity, neither symmetry properties. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-10 Hichem Hajaiej , Peter A. Markowich , Saber Trabelsi

We consider the Scenario Convex Program (SCP) for two classes of optimization problems that are not tractable in general: Robust Convex Programs (RCPs) and Chance-Constrained Programs (CCPs). We establish a probabilistic bridge from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Tobias Sutter , John Lygeros

In this paper, we introduce a new class of optimization problems whose objective functions are weakly homogeneous relative to the constraint sets. By using the normalization argument in asymptotic analysis, we prove two criteria for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-29 Vu Trung Hieu

We systematically explore a class of constrained optimization problems with linear objective function and constraints that are linear combinations of logarithms of the optimization variables. Such problems can be viewed as a generalization…

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