scholarly journals A Regularization SAA Scheme for a Stochastic Mathematical Program with Complementarity Constraints

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yu-xin Li ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Zun-quan Xia

To reflect uncertain data in practical problems, stochastic versions of the mathematical program with complementarity constraints (MPCC) have drawn much attention in the recent literature. Our concern is the detailed analysis of convergence properties of a regularization sample average approximation (SAA) method for solving a stochastic mathematical program with complementarity constraints (SMPCC). The analysis of this regularization method is carried out in three steps: First, the almost sure convergence of optimal solutions of the regularized SAA problem to that of the true problem is established by the notion of epiconvergence in variational analysis. Second, under MPCC-MFCQ, which is weaker than MPCC-LICQ, we show that any accumulation point of Karash-Kuhn-Tucker points of the regularized SAA problem is almost surely a kind of stationary point of SMPCC as the sample size tends to infinity. Finally, some numerical results are reported to show the efficiency of the method proposed.

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (06) ◽  
pp. 755-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
YONGCHAO LIU ◽  
GUI-HUA LIN

Regularization method proposed by Scholtes (2011) has been a recognized approach for deterministic mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (MPCC). Meng and Xu (2006) applied the approach coupled with Monte Carlo techniques to solve a class of one stage stochastic MPCC and presented some promising numerical results. However, Meng and Xu have not presented any convergence analysis of the regularized sample approximation method. In this paper, we fill out this gap. Specifically, we consider a general class of one stage stochastic mathematical programs with complementarity constraint where the objective and constraint functions are expected values of random functions. We carry out extensive convergence analysis of the regularized sample average approximation problems including the convergence of statistical estimators of optimal solutions, C-stationary points, M-stationary points and B-stationary points as sample size increases and the regularization parameter tends to zero.


Author(s):  
Tingsong Wang ◽  
Shuaian Wang ◽  
Qiang Meng

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