Although Genetic algorithm (GA), Ant colony (AC) and Particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) have already been extended to various types of engineering problems, the effects of initial sampling beside constraints in the efficiency of algorithms, is still an interesting field. In this paper we show that, initial sampling with a special series of constraints play an important role in the conv...

This paper proposes a Trust-Region Based Augmented Method (TRALM) to solve a combined Environmental and Economic Power Dispatch (EEPD) problem. The EEPD problem is a multi-objective problem with competing and non-commensurable objectives. The TRALM produces a set of non-dominated Pareto optimal solutions for the problem. Fuzzy set theory is employed to extract a compromise non-dominated sol...

We propose a novel framework for fast regularization of matrix-valued images. The resulting algorithms allow a unified treatment for a broad set of matrix groups and manifolds. Using an augmented-Lagrangian technique, we formulate a fast and highly parallel algorithm for matrixvalued image regularization. We demonstrate the applicability of the framework for various problems, such as motion ana...

In this paper we study nonlinear Lagrangian functions for constrained optimization problems which are, in general, nonlinear with respect to the objective function. We establish an equivalence between two types of zero duality gap properties, which are described using augmented Lagrangian dual functions and nonlinear Lagrangian dual functions, respectively. Furthermore, we show the existence of...

Lagrangian particle formulations of the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping algorithm (LDDMM) only allow for the study of a single shape. In this paper, we introduce and discuss both a theoretical and practical setting for the simultaneous study of multiple shapes that are either stitched to one another or slide along a submanifold. The method is described within the optimal control ...

We introduce a model-based excessive gap technique to analyze first-order primaldual methods for constrained convex minimization. As a result, we construct new primal-dual methods with optimal convergence rates on the objective residual and the primal feasibility gap of their iterates separately. Through a dual smoothing and prox-function selection strategy, our framework subsumes the augmented...

In [15], Higham considered two types of nearest correlation matrix problem, namely the W -weighted case and the H-weighted case. While the W -weighted case has since then been well studied to make several Lagrangian dual based efficient numerical methods available, the H-weighted case remains numerically challenging. The difficulty of extending those methods from the W -weighted case to the H-w...

We present a novel constraint-partitioning approach for solving continuous nonlinear optimization based on augmented Lagrange method. In contrast to previous work, our approach is based on a new constraint partitioning theory and can handle global constraints. We employ a hyper-graph partitioning method to recognize the problem structure. We prove global convergence under assumptions that are m...