Using the maximum principle for semicontinuous functions (Differential Integral Equations 3 (1990), 1001–1014; Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S) 27 (1992), 1–67), we establish a general ‘‘continuous dependence on the nonlinearities’’ estimate for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations with timeand space-dependent nonlinearities. Our result generalizes a result by Souga...

We introduce a new numerical solution method for semi-infinite optimization problems with convex lower level problems. The method is based on a reformulation of the semi-infinite problem as a Stackelberg game and the use of regularized nonlinear complementarity problem functions. This approach leads to central path conditions for the lower level problems, where for a given path parameter a smoo...

In this paper we consider the problem of finding a decomposed solution to a Markov model where the action rates may depend on the global state space. To do this we consider regular cycles in the underlying state space and show that a semi-product form solution exists when the functions describing the action rates have specific forms. The approach is illustrated with a simple queueing example al...

In this chapter, we present a family of semi-supervised linear support vector classifiers that are designed to handle partially-labeled sparse datasets with possibly very large number of examples and features. At their core, our algorithms employ recently developed Modified Finite Newton techniques. We provide a fast, multi-switch implementation of linear Transductive SVM (TSVM) that is signifi...

The discretization approach for solving semi-infinite optimization problems is considered. We are interested in the rate of the approximation error between the solution of the semi-infinite problem and the solution of the discretized program depending on the discretization mesh-size d. It will be shown how this rate depends on whether the minimizer is strict of order one or two and on whether t...

In this paper, a semi-analytic thermal stress computation for single crystals with cubic anisotropy is developed, by introducing a new anisotropic factor. Based on a suitable splitting of the differential operators, a convergence series for general elasticity problem with cubic anisotropy is derived. Each term of the series is related to an isotropic elasticity problem. Using the analytic solut...