A Newton acceleration of the Weiszfeld algorithm for minimizing the sum of Euclidean distances

Computational Optimization and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-242

  Li, Yuying ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Location problems; Newton methods; The Weiszfeld algorithm

Indexed keywords

EUCLIDEAN DISTANCES; LOCATION PROBLEM; NEWTON METHODS; THE WEISZFELD ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PROBLEM SOLVING; ALGORITHMS;

CHOLESKY FACTORIZATION; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCES; NEWTON METHODS; WEISZFELD ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0032114532     PISSN: 09266003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018333422414     Document Type: Article

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