The theory of the gap functions is extended to the variational inequality introduced by Minty. Exploiting the minimax formulation of a variational inequality, a new class of gap functions is defined. Descent methods,based on the minimization of the new class of gap functions, are analysed.

A new class of gap functions associated to the variational inequality introduced by Minty is defined. Descent methods for the minimization of the gap functions are analysed in order to develop exact and inexact line-search algorithms for solving strictly and strongly monotone variational inequalities, respectively.

This paper introduces a methodology for soil slope stability analysis based on optimization, limit equilibrium principles and method of slices. In this study, the slope stability analysis problem is transformed into a constrained nonlinear optimization problem. To solve that, a Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithm (GA) is utilized. In this study, the slope stability safety factors are the objective ...

A corollary of a celebrated theorem of Minty is that the subdifferential graph of a closed convex function on Rn has uniform local dimension n. In contrast, there exist nonconvex closed functions whose subdifferentials have large graphs. We consider how far Minty’s corollary extends to functions that are nonconvex but semi-algebraic. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Equilibrium problems have many uses in optimization theory and convex analysis and which is why different methods are presented for solving equilibrium problems in different spaces, such as Hilbert spaces and Banach spaces. The purpose of this paper is to provide a method for obtaining a solution to the equilibrium problem in Banach spaces. In fact, we consider a hybrid proximal point algorithm...