In this essay, the author assesses the operation of the Non-Compliance Procedure of the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. Although in operation for only six years, the Procedure and its standing Implementation Committee have already made significant contributions to...

A general class of iterative methods for saddle point seeking is developed. The directions used are subgradients evaluated at perturbed points. Convergence of the methods is proved and alternative strategies for implementation are discussed. The procedure suggests scalable algorithms for solving...

The linear programming problem is shown to be equivalent to a game in which primal players minimize the augmented Lagrangian function for the primal problem and dual players maximize the augmented Lagrangian function for the dual problem. Based on that, a parallel solution method is developed in...