scholarly journals Adaptive projection methods for linear fractional programming

Author(s):  
Ahlem BENNANI ◽  
Djamel BENTERKI ◽  
Hassina GRAR

In this paper, we are interested in solving a linear fractional program by two different approaches. The first one is based on interior point methods which makes it possible to solve an equivalent linear program to the linear fractional program. The second one allows us to solve a variational inequalities problem equivalent to the linear fractional program by an efficient projection method. The numerical tests show clearly that interior point methods are more efficient than of projection one.

Author(s):  
David Ek ◽  
Anders Forsgren

AbstractThe focus in this paper is interior-point methods for bound-constrained nonlinear optimization, where the system of nonlinear equations that arise are solved with Newton’s method. There is a trade-off between solving Newton systems directly, which give high quality solutions, and solving many approximate Newton systems which are computationally less expensive but give lower quality solutions. We propose partial and full approximate solutions to the Newton systems. The specific approximate solution depends on estimates of the active and inactive constraints at the solution. These sets are at each iteration estimated by basic heuristics. The partial approximate solutions are computationally inexpensive, whereas a system of linear equations needs to be solved for the full approximate solution. The size of the system is determined by the estimate of the inactive constraints at the solution. In addition, we motivate and suggest two Newton-like approaches which are based on an intermediate step that consists of the partial approximate solutions. The theoretical setting is introduced and asymptotic error bounds are given. We also give numerical results to investigate the performance of the approximate solutions within and beyond the theoretical framework.


Author(s):  
Jeremy Nicola ◽  
Luc Jaulin

Linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) comprise a large class of convex constraints. Boxes, ellipsoids, and linear constraints can be represented by LMIs. The intersection of LMIs are also classified as LMIs. Interior-point methods are able to minimize or maximize any linear criterion of LMIs with complexity, which is polynomial regarding to the number of variables. As a consequence, as shown in this paper, it is possible to build optimal contractors for sets represented by LMIs. When solving a set of nonlinear constraints, one may extract from all constraints that are LMIs in order to build a single optimal LMI contractor. A combination of all contractors obtained for other non-LMI constraints can thus be performed up to the fixed point. The resulting propogation is shown to be more efficient than other conventional contractor-based approaches.


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