Optimization Online Digest — August 2000

Applications — Science and Engineering

Interior point methods for massive support vector machines
Michael Ferris, Todd Munson

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization

A bundle filter method for nonsmooth nonlinear optimization
Roger Fletcher, Sven Leyffer

Infinite Dimensional Optimization

On duality theory of conic linear problems
Alexander Shapiro

Integer Programming

Integrating SQP and branch-and-bound for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming
Sven Leyffer

A Parallel, Linear Programming Based Heuristic for Large Scale Set Partitioning Problems
Jeff Linderoth, Eva Lee, Martin Savelsbergh

OR Counterparts to AI Planning
Robert Fourer

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming

A New Class of Polynomial Primal-Dual Methods for Linear and Semidefinite Optimization
J Peng, C Roos, T Terlaky

A scaled Gauss-Newton Primal--Dual Search Direction for Semidefinite Optimization
E. de Klerk, J Peng, C Roos, T Terlaky

Notes on the Dual Simplex Method
Robert Fourer

Nonlinear Optimization

On the global convergence of an SLP-filter algorithm
Roger Fletcher, Sven Leyffer, Phillipe L. Toint

An infeasible active set method for convex problems with simple bounds
Karl Kunisch , Franz Rendl

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems

Optimization as an Internet Resource
Robert Fourer, Jean-Pierre Goux