Optimization Online Digest — November 2000

Applications — Science and Engineering

Semismooth Support Vector Machines
Michael C Ferris, Todd S Munson

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming

Hyper-sparsity in the revised simplex method and how to exploit it
Julian Hall, Ken McKinnon

Augmented self concordant barriers and nonlinear optimization problems with finite complexity
Yurii Nesterov, Jean-Philippe Vial

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems

GPCG: A case study in the performance and scalability of optimization algorithms
Steve Benson, Lois McInnes, Jorge More'

Benchmarking Optimization Software with COPS
Elizabeth Dolan, Jorge More'

iNEOS : An Interactive Environment for Nonlinear Optimization
Marcel Good, Jean-Pierre Goux, Jorge Nocedal, Victor Pereyra

Other Topics

Cooperative games on antimatroids
E. Algaba, J. M. Bilbao, R. van den Brink, A. Jimenez-Losada