METROPOLIS proposes an interactive environment which simulates automobile traffic in large urban areas. The core of the system is a dynamic simulator ehich integrates commuters' departure time and route choice behavirs over large networks: Drivers are assumed to minimize a generalized travel...

We propose an alternative apporach to stochastic programming based on Monte-Carlo sampling and stochastic gradient optimization. The procedure is by essence probabilistic and the computed solution is a random variable. The associated objectiev value is doubly random, since it depends two...

In this paper we consider a new analytic center cutting plane method in a projective space. We prove the efficiency for the general scheme and show that these results can be used in the analysis of a feasability problem, the variational inequality problem and the problem if constrained...

In this paper we consider a homogeneous analytic center cutting plabne method in a projective space. We describe a general scheme that uses a homogeneous oracle and computes an approximate analytic center at each iteration. This technique is applied to a convex feasibility problem, to...

In this paper we study special barrier functions for the convex cones, which are the sum of a self-concordant barrier for the cone and a positive-semidefinite quadratric form. We show that the central path of these augmented barrier functions can be traced with linear speed. We also study the...