As a basic mathematical structure,the system of inequalities over symmetric cones and its solution can provide an effective method for solving the startup problem of interior point method which is used to solve many optimization problems.In this paper,a non-interior continuation algorithm is proposed for solving the system of inequalities under the order induced by a symmetric cone.It is shown that the proposed algorithm is globally convergent and well-defined.Moreover,it can start from any point and only needs to solve one system of linear equations at most at each iteration.Under suitable assumptions,global linear and local quadratic convergence is established with Euclidean Jordan algebras.Numerical results indicate that the algorithm is efficient.The systems of random linear inequalities were tested over the second-order cones with sizes of 10,100,,1 000 respectively and the problems of each size were generated randomly for 10 times.The average iterative numbers show that the proposed algorithm can generate a solution at one step for solving the given linear class of problems with random initializations.It seems possible that the continuation algorithm can solve larger scale systems of linear inequalities over the secondorder cones quickly.Moreover,a system of nonlinear inequalities was also tested over Cartesian product of two simple second-order cones,and numerical results indicate that the proposed algorithm can deal with the nonlinear cases.
A family of merit functions are proposed, which are the generalization of several existing merit functions. A number of favorable properties of the proposed merit functions are established. By using these properties, a merit function method for solving nonlinear complementarity problem is investigated, and the global convergence of the proposed algorithm is proved under some standard assumptions. Some preliminary numerical results are given.
LU Li-yong HUANG Zheng-hai HU Sheng-long Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Given a real(finite-dimensional or infinite-dimensional) Hilbert space H with a Jordan product,we consider the Lorentz cone linear complementarity problem,denoted by LCP(T,Ω,q),where T is a continuous linear operator on H,ΩH is a Lorentz cone,and q ∈ H.We investigate some conditions for which the problem concerned has a unique solution for all q ∈ H(i.e.,T has the GUS-property).Several sufficient conditions and several necessary conditions are given.In particular,we provide two suficient and necessary conditions of T having the GUS-property.Our approach is based on properties of the Jordan product and the technique from functional analysis,which is different from the pioneer works given by Gowda and Sznajder(2007) in the case of finite-dimensional spaces.
It is well known that the symmetric cone complementarity problem（SCCP） is a broad class of optimization problems which contains many optimization problems as special cases.Based on a general smoothing function,we propose in this paper a non-interior continuation algorithm for solving the monotone SCCP.The proposed algorithm solves at most one system of linear equations at each iteration.By using the theory of Euclidean Jordan algebras,we show that the algorithm is globally linearly and locally quadratically convergent under suitable assumptions.
In this paper, we consider the fault-tolerant concave facility location problem （FTCFL） with uniform requirements. By investigating the structure of the FTCFL, we obtain a modified dual-fitting bifactor approximation algorithm. Combining the scaling and greedy argumentation technique, the approximation factor is proved to be 1.52.
