Treating Difficult Nonlinearities in Optimization: Sparse, Global and Integer Optimization

Abstract

For mixed-integer linear programming and local nonlinear programming, over the last 50+ years, good modeling practices have become well known, and many important mathematical and algorithmic principles are now absorbed by solvers. For other important categories of optimization problems, mathematical and algorithmic theory and practice are much less developed. We are addressing several key issues: optimizing sparsity, handling non-smooth and nonconvex functions in the context of global optimization, and integrality issues which become amplified by nonlinearities.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Mar 03, 2017
Source ID
N000141712296

Entities

People

  • Jon Lee

Organizations

  • Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy

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Readers

  • Operations Research