How to deal with the unbounded in optimization: Theory and algorithms

Mathematical Programming, Series B

Volumn 79, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 3-18

  Auslender, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Convex analysis; Convex and linear programming; Existence of optimal solutions; Penalty and barrier methods; Recession functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002281861     PISSN: 00255610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02614308     Document Type: Article

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