Feasible Descent Cone methods for inequality constrained optimization problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1341-1356

  Snyman, J A ^a   Stander, Nielen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Feasible descent; Mathematical programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; FEASIBLE DESCENT CONE METHOD; NONLINEAR OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0030125740     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19960430)39:8<1341::AID-NME907>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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