The relaxation of the reciprocity condition for pairwise comparisons is revisited from the optimization point of view. We show that some special but not extreme cases of the Least Squares Method are easy to solve as convex optimization problems after suitable nonlinear change of variables. We...

This paper extends and completes the discussion by Xing et al. (Canonical dual solutions to the quadratic programming over a quadratic constraint, submitted) about the quadratic programming over one quadratic constraint (QP1QC). In particular, we relax the assumption to cover more general cases...

We establish the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions on a nondifferentiable minimax fractional programming problem. Subsequently, applying the optimality conditions, we constitute two dual models: Mond-Weir type and Wolfe type. On these duality types, we prove three duality...

This article uses a sequentialized experimental design to select simulation input combinations for global optimization, based on Kriging (also called Gaussian process or spatial correlation modeling); this Kriging is used to analyze the input/output data of the simulation model (computer code)....

In this work, by using weak conjugate maps given in (Azimov and Gasimov, in Int J Appl Math 1:171–192, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1999</CitationRef>), weak Fenchel conjugate dual problem, <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$${(D_F^w)}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> , and weak Fenchel Lagrange conjugate dual problem <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$${(D_{FL}^w)}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> are constructed. Necessary and sufficient conditions for...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></citationref>

We propose a heuristic for 0/1 programs based on the recent “joint + marginal” approach of the first author for parametric polynomial optimization. The idea is to first consider the n-variable (x <Subscript>1</Subscript>, . . . , x <Subscript> n </Subscript>) problem as a (n − 1)-variable problem (x <Subscript>2</Subscript>, . . . , x <Subscript> n </Subscript>) with the...</subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript>

In this paper, we prove the existence of infinitely many solutions to differential problems where both the equation and the conditions are Sturm–Liouville type. The approach is based on critical point theory. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2012