Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale

Seminar by Alexander Strekalovskiy, May 11, 2010, at 16,30, room A7.

Title: Elements of non-convex optimization.

Abstract:  We consider a general optimization problem with functions, represented as a difference of two convex functions. In order to attack that problem we first concentrate on two partial cases: d.c. minimization and d.c. constraint problems - and explain local search methods and global search procedure for these two problems. Finally we give an overview of application problems investigated by the developed approach.

Alexander Strekalovskiy, Full Professor, Honored scientist of Russia, Head of Laboratory of Methods of Nonconvex Optimization, Institute for System Dynamics & Control Theory, The Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences