In this paper we investigate a class of cardinality-constrained portfolio selection problems. We construct convex relaxations for this class of optimization problems via a new Lagrangian decomposition scheme. We show that the dual problem can be reduced to a second-order cone program problem...

We focus in this paper the problem of improving the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for the standard quadratic optimization problem (standard QP in short) that concerns with minimizing a quadratic form over a simplex. We first analyze the duality gap between the standard QP and one of...

Mathematical programs with vanishing constraints constitute a new class of difficult optimization problems with important applications in optimal topology design of mechanical structures. Vanishing constraints usually violate standard constraint qualifications, which gives rise to serious...

Some elasto-plasticity models with hardening are discussed and some incremental finite element methods with different time discretisation schemes are considered. The corresponding one-time-step problems lead to variational equations with various non-linear operators. Common properties of the...

The rank function rank(.) is neither continuous nor convex which brings much difficulty to the solution of rank minimization problems. In this paper, we provide a unified framework to construct the approximation functions of rank(.), and study their favorable properties. Particularly, with two...

In this paper we consider optimal control problems subject to a semilinear elliptic state equation together with the control constraints 0≤u≤1 and ∫u=m. Optimality conditions for this problem are derived and reformulated as a nonlinear, nonsmooth equation which is solved using a semismooth...

In this paper, we introduce a new method, called the Lattice Projection Method (LPM), for solving eigenvalue complementarity problems. The original problem is reformulated to find the roots of a nonsmooth function. A semismooth Newton type method is then applied to approximate the eigenvalues...