Applications of variational analysis to a generalized Heron problem

Applicable Analysis

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1915-1942

  Mordukhovich, Boris S ^a,b   Nam, Nguyen Mau ^c   Salinas, Juan ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

convex and nonconvex sets; generalized differentiation; Heron problem and its extensions; minimal time function; variational analysis and optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866870491     PISSN: 00036811     EISSN: 1563504X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036811.2011.604849     Document Type: Article

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