A new algorithm for the optimal stope design problem is proposed. It is based on a previous methodology developed by Bai et al. (2013a) where a cylindrical ...

Decentralized stochastic control refers to the multi-stage optimization of a dynamical system by multiple controllers that have access to different informati...

In decentralized control systems with linear dynamics, quadratic cost, and Gaussian disturbance (also called decentralized LQG systems) linear control strate...

Various constrained problem formulations for the optimization of an electro-thermal wing anti-icing system in both running-wet and evaporative regimes are pr...

In many large engineering design problems, it is not computationally feasible or realistic to store Jacobians or Hessians explicitly. Matrix-free implementat...

Aircraft sizing, route network design, demand estimation and allocation of aircraft to routes are different facets of the air transportation optimization pro...

Blackbox optimization deals with situations in which the objective function and constraints are typically computed by launching a time-consuming computer ...

A preconditioned variant of the Golub and Kahan (1965) bidiagonalization process recently proposed by Arioli (2013) and Arioli and Orban (2013) allows us to ...

We propose a generalization of the limited-memory Cholesky factorization of Lin and Moré (1999) to the symmetric indefinite case with special interest in sym...

Symmetric quasi-definite systems may be interpreted as regularized linear least-squares problem in appropriate metrics and arise from applications such as re...

We describe the most recent evolution of our constrained and unconstrained testing environment and its accompanying SIF decoder. Code-named SIFDecode and CU...

Projected Krylov methods are full-space formulations of Krylov methods that take place in a nullspace. Provided projections into the nullspace can be compute...

The Mesh Adaptive Direct Search algorithm (MADS) algorithm is designed for nonsmooth blackbox optimization problems in which the evaluation of the funct...

Interior-point methods feature prominently among numerical methods for inequality-constrained optimization problems, and involve the need to solve a sequ...

Blackbox optimization typically arises when the functions defining the objective and constraints of an optimization problem are computed through a computer...

The Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) class of algorithms is designed for nonsmooth optimization, where the objective function and constraints are typical...

This paper presents a framework to determine optimal maintenance planning of a fleet of complex and independent systems. They are made up of several major co...

Interior-point methods in semi-definite programming (SDP) require the solution of a sequence of linear systems which are used to derive the search directions...

OPAL is a general-purpose system for modeling and solving algorithm optimization problems. OPAL takes an algorithm as input, and as output it suggests para...

Implementations of the Simplex method differ only in very specific aspects such as the pivot rule. Similarly, most relaxation methods for mixed-integer ...