On a machine sequencing problem (I)
The paper presents a natural application of multi-objective programming to household production and consumption theory. A contribution to multi-objective programming theory is also included.
We present a local and a semi-local convergence analysis of an iterative method for approximating zeros of derivatives for solving univariate and unconstrained optimization problems. In the local case, the radius of convergence is obtained, whereas in the semi-local case, sufficient convergence criteria are presented. Numerical examples are also provided.
A general multistage stochastic programming problem can be introduced as a finite system of parametric (one-stage) optimization problems with an inner type of dependence. Evidently, this type of the problems is rather complicated and, consequently, it can be mostly solved only approximately. The aim of the paper is to suggest some approximation solution schemes. To this end a restriction to the Markov type of dependence is supposed.
A co-biclique of a simple undirected graph G = (V,E) is the edge-set of two disjoint complete subgraphs of G. (A co-biclique is the complement of a biclique.) A subset F ⊆ E is an independent of G if there is a co-biclique B such that F ⊆ B, otherwise F is a dependent of G. This paper describes the minimal dependents of G. (A minimal dependent is a dependent C such that any proper subset of C is an independent.) It is showed that a minimum-cost dependent set of G can be determined in polynomial...
In the paper we consider EPCCs with convex quadratic objective functions and one set of complementarity constraints. For this class of problems we propose a possible generalization of the homotopy method for finding stationary points of MPCCs. We analyze the difficulties which arise from this generalization. Numerical results illustrate the performance for randomly generated test problems.