Abstract – The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been, and still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable modern information systems involving artificial reasoning. In this introduction, we present a survey of our recent theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning, kno...

The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or highly conflicting sources of information has always been, and still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable modern information systems involving artificial reasoning. In this introduction, we present a survey of our recent theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning, known as Dez...

An approach to determine primal and dual stepsizes in the infeasible{ interior{point primal{dual method for convex quadratic problems is presented. The approach reduces the primal and dual infeasibilities in each step and allows diierent stepsizes. The method is derived by investigating the eecient set of a multiobjective optimization problem. Computational results are also given.

A new initialization or ‘Phase I’ strategy for feasible interior point methods for linear programming is proposed that computes a point on the primal-dual central path associated with the linear program. Provided there exist primal-dual strictly feasible points — an all-pervasive assumption in interior point method theory that implies the existence of the central path — our initial method (Algo...

We consider a Primal-Dual Augmented Lagrangian (PDAL) method for optimization problems with equality constraints. Each step of the PDAL requires solving the Primal-Dual linear system of equations. We show that under the standard second-order optimality condition the PDAL method generates a sequence, which locally converges to the primal-dual solution with quadratic rate.

Iterative substructuring methods with Lagrange multipliers for the elliptic system of linear elasticity are considered. The algorithms belong to the family of dual-primal FETI methods which was introduced for linear elasticity problems in the plane by Farhat et al. [2001] and then extended to three dimensional elasticity problems by Farhat et al. [2000]. In dual-primal FETI methods, some contin...

A natural way to represent on the plane both a planar graph and its dual is to follow the definition of the dual, thus, to place vertices inside their corresponding primal faces, and to draw the dual edges so that they only cross their corresponding primal edges. The problem of constructing such drawings has a long tradition when the drawings of both primal and dual are required to be straight-...

We discuss two approximation paradigms that were used to construct many approximation algorithms during the last two decades, the primal-dual schema and the local ratio technique. Recently, primal-dual algorithms were devised by first constructing a local ratio algorithm, and then transforming it into a primal-dual algorithm. This was done in the case of the 2-approximation algorithms for the f...