Exploiting structure in parallel implementation of interior point methods for optimization

Computational Management Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-160

  Gondzio, Jacek ^a   Grothey, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interior point methods; Object oriented; Optimization; Parallelism; Structure exploitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 63949085263     PISSN: 1619697X     EISSN: 16196988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10287-008-0090-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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