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    • Fast Equi-Partitioning of Rectangular Domains using Stripe Decomposition 

      Martin, Wayne (1996-02-05)
      This paper presents a fast algorithm that provides optimal or near optimal solutions to the minimum perimeter problem on a rectangular grid. The minimum perimeter problem is to partition a grid of size MxN into P equal ...
    • FATCOP: A Fault Tolerant Condor-PVM Mixed Integer Programming Solver 

      Chen, Qun; Ferris, Michael (1999-12)
      We describe FATCOP, a new parallel mixed integer program solver written in PVM. The implementation uses the Condor resource management system to provide a virtual machine composed of otherwise idle computers. The solver ...
    • Feasible Descent Algorithms for Mixed Complementarity Problems 

      Munson, Todd; Kanzow, Christian; Ferris, Michael (1998-11-11)
      In this paper we consider a general algorithmic framework for solving nonlinear mixed complementarity problems. The main features of this framework are: (a) it is well-defined for an arbitrary mixed complementarity problem, ...
    • Feature Selection Via Concave Minimization and Support Vector Machines 

      Mangasarian, O.L.; Bradley, P.S. (1998)
      Computational comparison is made between two feature selection approaches for finding a separating plane that discriminates between two point sets in an n-dimensional feature space that utilizes as few of the n features ...
    • Feature Selection via Mathematic Programming 

      Mangasarian, O.L.; Street, W. N.; Bradley, P.S. (1997-04)
      The problem of discriminating between two finite point sets in n-dimensional feature space by a separating plane that utilizes as few of the features as possible, is formulated as a mathematical program with a parametric ...
    • Formulating and Solving Nonlinear Programs as Mixed Complementarity Problems 

      Sinapiromsaran, Krung; Ferris, Michael (1998)
      We consider a primal-dual approach to solve nonlinear programming problems within AMPL modeling language, via a mixed complementarity formulation. The modeling language supplies the first order and second order derivative ...
    • The GAMS Callable Program Library for Variational and Complementarity Solvers 

      Preckel, Paul; Ferris, Michael; Dirkse, Steven (1994-07-19)
      The GAMS modeling language has recently been extended to enable the formulation of Mixed Complementarity Problems (MCP). The GAMS Callable Program Library (CPLIB) is a set of Fort ran subroutines developed as an extension ...
    • Generalized Support Vector Machines 

      Mangasarian, Olvi (1998)
      By setting apart the two functions of a support vector machine: separation of points by a nonlinear surface in the original space of patterns, and maximizing the distance between separating planes in a higher dimensional ...
    • Genetic Algorithms as Multi-Coordinators in Large-Scale Optimization 

      Meyer, Robert R.; Martin, Wayne; Christou, Ioannis T. (1996)
      We present high-level, decomposition-based algorithms for large-scale block-angular optimization problems containing integer variables, and demonstrate their effectiveness in the solution of large-scale graph partitioning ...
    • Genetic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization: The Assembly Line Balancing Problem 

      Ferris, Michael; Anderson, Edward (1993-01)
      Genetic algorithms are one example of the use of a random element within an algorithm for combinatorial optimization. We consider the application of the genetic algorithm to a particular problem, the Assembly Line Balancing ...
    • Global Optimization Techniques for Mixed Complementarity Problems 

      Kanzow, Christian (1998-07-30)
      We investigates the theoretical and numerical properties of two global optimization techniques for the solution of mixed complementarity problems. More precisely, using a standard semismooth Newton-type method as a basic ...
    • A homotopy method for mixed complementarity problems based on the PATH solver 

      Ralph, D.; Munson, Todd; Ferris, Michael (1999)
      Mixed complementarity problems can be recast as zero finding problems for the normal map, a function that is smooth on the interior o each of the cells of a piecewise linear manifold of IR^n, called normal manifold. We ...
    • Hybrid Misclassification Minimization 

      Olvi, Mangasarian; Chen, Chunhui (1995)
      Given two finite point sets A and B in the n-dimensional real space R^n, we consider the NP-complete problem of minimizing the number of misclassified points by a plane attempting to divide R^n into two halfspaces such ...
    • A Hybrid Newton Method for Solving Box Constrained Variational Inequalitiy Problems Via the D-Gap Function 

      Fukushima, Masao; Kanzow, Christian; Peng, Ji-Ming (1997-12-30)
      A box constrained variational inequality problem can be reformulated as an unconstrained minimization problem through the D-gap function. A hybrid Netwon-type method is proposed for minimizing the D-gap function. Under ...
    • The Ill-Posed Linear Complementarity Problem 

      Mangasarian, Olvi L. (1995)
      A regularization of the linear complementarity problem (LCP) is proposed that leads to an exact solution, if one exists, otherwise a minimizer of a natural residual of the problem is obtained. The regularized LCP (RLCP) ...
    • Improved Generalization via Tolerant Training 

      Mangasarian, O. L.; Street, W. Nick (1996-12-20)
      Theoretical and computational justification is given for improved generalization when the training set is learned with less accuracy. The model used for this investigation is a simple linear one. It is shown that learning ...
    • Individual and Collective Prognostic Prediction 

      Wolberg, W.H.; Mangasarian, O.L.; Street, W. Nick (1996-01-04)
      The prediction of survival time or recurrence time is an important learning problem in medical domains. The Recurrence Surface Approximation (RSA) method is a natural, effective method for predicting recurrence times using ...
    • Interfaces to PATH 3.0: Design, Implementation and Usage 

      Munson, Todd S.; Ferris, Michael C. (1998-05-05)
      Several new interfaces have recently been developed requiring PATH to solve a mixed complementarity problem. To overcome the necessity of maintaining a different version of PATH for each interface, the code was reorganized ...
    • Jacobian Smoothing Methods for General Nonlinear Complementarity Problems 

      Pieper, Heiko; Kanzow, Christian (1997-10-13)
      We present a new algorithm for the solution of general (not necessarily monotone) complementarity problems. The algorithm is based on a reformulation of the complementarity problem as a nonsmooth system of equations by ...
    • k-Plane Clustering 

      Mangasarian, O.L.; Bradley, P.S. (1998)
      A finite new algorithm is proposed for clustering m given points in n-dimensional real space into k clusters by generating k planes that constitute a local solution to the nonconvex problem of minimizing the sum of squares ...