Fast Linear Algebra for Multiarc Trajectory Optimization; Lagrange Multipliers with Optimal Sensitivity Properties in Constrained Optimization; An O(n2) Algorithm for Isotonic Regression; Knitro : An Integrated Package for Nonlinear Optimization; On implicit-factorization constraint preconditioners; Optimal algorithms for large sparse quadratic programming problems with uniformly bounded spectrum; Numerical methods for separating two polyhedra; Exact penalty functions for generalized Nash problems; Parametric Sensitivity Analysis for Optimal Boundary Control of a 3D Reaction-Diffusion System
Summary
Reviews and discusses advances in the development of methods and algorithms for nonlinear optimization and its applications, focusing on the large-dimensional case, the forefront of much research. This work contains chapters that give an overview of the field from different and complementary standpoints
Notes
"Refereed papers presented at the Workshop on Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization held in Erice, Italy ... June 22-July 1, 2004"--Preface
