Optimization Online Digest — February 2002

Applications — Science and Engineering

Large-Scale Linear Programming Techniques for the Design of Protein Folding Potentials
Michael Wagner, Jaroslaw Meller, Ron Elber

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization

A new class of proximal interior-point methods for optimization under positivity constraints
Gilvan L. Oliveira, Paulo R. Oliveira

The method of reflection-projection for convex feasibility problems with an obtuse cone
Heinz Bauschke, Serge Kruk

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming

Computational Experience and the Explanatory Value of Condition Numbers for Linear Optimization
Ordonez Fernando, Robert M. Freund

A new class of merit functions for the semidefinite complementarity problem
Rosely M. B. Goes, Paulo R. Oliveira

Nonlinear Optimization

Space mapping: Models, sensitivities, and trust-regions methods
Luis N. Vicente

A globally convergent primal-dual interior-point filter method for nonlinear programming
Michael Ulbrich, Stefan Ulbrich, Luis N. Vicente

Sparsity issues in the computation of Jacobian Matrices
Shahadat Hossain, Trond Steihaug

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems

Improved Interval Constraint Propagation for Constraints on Partial Derivatives
Evgueni Petrov, Frederic Benhamou

GloptiPoly - Global Optimization over Polynomials with Matlab and SeDuMi
Didier Henrion, Jean B. Lasserre

Stochastic Programming

The Sample Average Approximation Method for Stochastic Programs with Integer Recourse
Shabbir Ahmed, Alexander Shapiro