For solving nonsmooth systems of equations, the Levenberg-Marquardt method and its variants are of particular importance because of their locally fast convergent rates. Finitely manymaximum functions systems are very useful in the study of nonlinear complementarity problems, variational inequality problems, Karush-Kuhn-Tucker systems of nonlinear programming problems, and many problems in mecha...

Approximate optimality conditions for a class of nonconvex semi-infinite programs involving support functions are given. The objective function and the constraint functions are locally Lipschitz functions on n . By using a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker KKT condition, we deduce a necessary optimality condition for local approximate solutions. Then, generalized KKT conditions for the problems are proposed. ...

A general equilibrium model for multiphase multicomponent inorganic atmospheric aerosols is proposed. The thermodynamic equilibrium is given by the minimum of the Gibbs free energy for a system involving an aqueous phase, a gas phase and solid salts. A primal-dual algorithm solving the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions is detailed. An active set/Newton method permits to compute the minimum of energ...

A non-linear discrete-time mathematical program model is proposed to determining the optimal extraction policy for a single primary supplier of a durable non-renewable resource, such as gemstones or some metals. Karush, Kuhn and Tucker conditions allow obtaining analytic solutions and general properties of them in some specific settings. Moreover, provided that the objective function (i.e., the...

I. A Brief History of Optimization Research: The history of optimization of realvalued non-linear functions (including linear ones), unconstrained or constrained, goes back to Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler and Joseph Lagrange. However, those mathematicians often assumed differentiability of the optimand as well as constraint functions. Moreover, they often dealt with the equal...

Abstract The synthetic control method (SCM) represents a notable innovation in estimating the causal effects of policy interventions and programs comparative case study setting. In this paper, we demonstrate that data-driven approach to SCM requires solving bilevel optimization problem. We show how original problem can be solved global optimum through introduction an iterative algorithm rooted ...

This paper deals with the coordination of pricing and order quantity decisions for two seasonal and substitutable goods in one firm. We assume that the customers are price sensitive and they are willing to buy the cheaper products, which is known as one way and customers-based price driven substitution. First, a mathematical model is developed for one firm, which contains two replaceable produc...

where (a) because that E and Tr are both linear operators and Tr[E[ZZ ]] is certain positive number which is independent on the optimization variables, then this term can be replaced by another positive constant Tr[EZ[Z ]EZ[Z]]. Based on the equivalence between (13) and (14), we can apply the result shown in [28, Lemma 2]. Since the constraint set is polyhedral in the formulation (3), the linea...

The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions and saddle point optimality conditions in fuzzy programming problems have been studied in literature by various authors under different conditions. In this paper, by considering a partial order relation on the set of fuzzy numbers, and convexity with differentiability of fuzzy mappings, we have obtained the Fritz John (FJ) constraint qualificat...