We investigate in this paper the duality gap between quadratic knapsack problem and its Lagrangian dual or semidefinite programming relaxation. We characterize the duality gap by a distance measure from set {0, 1}<Superscript> n </Superscript> to certain polyhedral set and demonstrate that the duality gap can be reduced...</superscript>

This article describes how attractive structures are always correspond to objects of interest in human perception, thus extracting attractive structures is a fundamental problem in many image analysis tasks, which is of great practical importance. In this article, the authors propose a novel...

A deterministic global optimization method is developed for a class of discontinuous functions. McCormick’s method to obtain relaxations of nonconvex functions is extended to discontinuous factorable functions by representing a discontinuity with a step function. The properties of the...

We present a new way to solve generalized Nash equilibrium problems. We assume the feasible set to be compact. Furthermore all functions are assumed to be polynomials. However we do not impose convexity on either the utility functions or the action sets. The key idea is to use Putinar’s...

We present a new way to solve generalized Nash equilibrium problems. We assume the feasible set to be compact. Furthermore all functions are assumed to be polynomials. However we do not impose convexity on either the utility functions or the action sets. The key idea is to use Putinar’s...

We propose and study a new method, called the Interior Epigraph Directions (IED) method, for solving constrained nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization. The IED method considers the dual problem induced by a generalized augmented Lagrangian duality scheme, and obtains the primal solution by...

We consider the optimal operation of a hydroelectric plant supplemented by a set of thermal plants. The initial model gives rise to a discrete minimization problem with a convex cost function, submitted to both concave and convex restrictions. The geometry of the water reservoir is taken into...