Optimization and Control with Applications
Erice, Italy, July 9 - 17 2001
Timetable





July 9:    Arrival Day

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July 10:

8:00 - 9:45    Opening Session: Chair: Qi, Liqun

8:00 - 8:15    Opening Speech: Giannessi, Franco
8:15 - 8:30    Opening Speech: Teo, Kok Lay
8:30 - 9:15    Todd, Mike: Interior-Point Methods for Semidefinite and Second-Order-Cone Programming
9:15 - 9:45    Teo, Kok Lay: Sensor Scheduling in Continuous Time

9:45 - 10:05    Break

10:05 - 11:50    Session 2: Chair: Teo, Kok Lay

10:05 - 10:50    Spedicato, Emilio: ABS Methods for Linear Systems and Optimization
10:50 - 11:20    Thera, Michel: The Bergstrom-Mc Linden Theorem revisited
11:20 - 11:50    Liao, Li-Zhi: Neurodynamic Optimization

11:50 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 15:45    Session 3: Chair: Fletcher, Roger

14:00 - 14:45    Polak, Elijah: Consistent Approximations and Approximate Functions and Gradients in Optimal Control
14:45 - 15:15    Gowda, Seetharama: Complementarity properties of Lyapunov and Stein transformations
15:15 - 15:45    Lee, Joseph: An Optimal Control Approach to Manpower Planning Problem

15:45 - 16:05    Break

16:05 - 18:00    Session 4: Chair: Schaible, Siegfried

16:05 - 16:50    Roos, Kees: New 'efficient' barrier functions for linear and semidefinite optimization
16:50 - 17:20    Fischer, Andreas: Trust-Region Methods with Particularly Scaled Subproblems for Complementarity Problems
17:20 - 17:40    Burachik, Regina Sandra: Maximal Monotone Operators, Convex Functions and a special family of enlargements
17:40 - 18:00    Li, Shengjie: Duality and Algorithm for Semi-Definite and Semi-Infinite Programming

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July 11:

8:00 - 9:45    Session 5: Chair: Todd, Mike

8:00 - 8:45    Schittkowski, Klaus: Sequential Quadratic Programming versus Sequential Convex Programming Methods and some Industrial Applications
8:45 - 9:15    Li, Wu: Robust Airfoil Optimization to Achieve Consistent Drag Reduction Over a Mach Range
9:15 - 9:45    Wong, Kar Hung: Finding Optimal Feedback Control for Time-Delayed Systems

9:45 - 10:05    Break

10:05 - 11:50    Session 6: Chair: Thera, Michel

10:05 - 10:50    Burke, Jim: Approximating of subdifferentials by random sampling of gradients and algorithmic consequences
10:50 - 11:20    Qi, Liqun: Boundedness and Regularity Properties of Semismooth Reformulations of Variational Inequalities
11:20 - 11:50    Lewis, Adrian: Ill-Conditioned Generalized Equations

11:50 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 15:45    Session 7: Chair: Yang, Xiaoqi

14:00 - 14:45    Tseng, Paul: On an interior point algorithm for (nonconvex) quadratic programming
14:45 - 15:15    Wardi, Yorai: Optimal Control of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems
15:15 - 15:45    Fukuda, Mituhiro: Reformulating sparse semidefinite programs by matrix completion

15:45 - 16:05    Break

16:05 - 18:00    Session 4: Chair: Penot, Jean-Paul

16:05 - 16:50    Wu, Soon-yi: Algorithms and Applications for Continuous Complementarity Problem
16:50 - 17:20    Gwinner, Joachim: Pseudomonotone variational inequalities - existence and discretization
17:20 - 17:40    Drummond, Luis: A Steepest Descent Method for Vector Optimization
17:20 - 18:00    Gasimov, Rafail: The Modified Subgradient Method for Equality Constrained Nonconvex Optimization Problems

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July 12:

8:00 - 9:45    Session 9: Chair: Shapiro, Alexander

8:00 - 8:45    Sun, Jie: Semismooth Matrix Equations
8:45 - 9:15    Eberhard, Andrew Craig: Second-order Jets as compared to the Graphical Derivative to a Subdifferential
9:15 - 9:45    Hou, Shui-hung: On a geometric lemma and set-valued vector equilibrium problem

9:45 - 10:05    Break

10:05 - 11:50    Session 10: Chair: Wu, Soon-yi

10:05 - 10:50    Kanzow, Christian: Infeasible Interior Proximal-Like Methods for Convex Programs with Applications to Optimal Control
10:50 - 11:20    Shimizu, Kiyotaka: A Solution to Hamilton-Jacobi Equation by Neural Networks and Optimal State Feedback Control Law of Nonlinear Systems
11:20 - 11:50    Cimen, Tayfun: Optimal Control of Nonlinear Systems

11:50 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 15:45    Session 11: Chair: Burke, Jim

14:00 - 14:45    Zhang, Xiang-Sun: The Inverse DEA Model: A Prediction Tool for Not-for-Profit Organizations
14:45 - 15:15    Penot, Jean-Paul: The use of nonsmooth analysis and of duality methods for the study of Hamilton-Jacobi equations
15:15 - 15:45    Luus, Rein: Time Optimal Control of High-Dimensional Systems

15:45 - 16:05    Break

16:05 - 18:00    Session 12: Chair: Dai, Yu-hong

16:05 - 16:50    Rubinov, Alex: Data classification through global optimization
16:50 - 17:20    Yang, Xiaoqi: Nonlinear Lagrangian Functions and Applications in Variational Inequality
17:20 - 17:40    Kitti, Mitri: Distributed computation of incentive Stackelberg solutions
17:40 - 18:00    Ranta, Jukka: Optimal Collision Avoidance Using Nonlinear Programming

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July 13:

8:00 - 9:45    Session 13: Chair: Zhang, Xiang-Sun

8:00 - 8:45    Fletcher, Roger: The Barzilai Borwein Method - Steepest Descent Resurgent
8:45 - 9:15    Dai, Yu-hong: Alternative Stepsize Gradient Method
9:15 - 9:45    Raydan, Marcos: Nonmonotone Spectral Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems

9:45 - 10:05    Break

10:15 - 12:00    Session 14: Chair: Rubinov, Alex

10:05 - 10:50    Martínez, José Mario: Inexact restoration: advances and perspectives
10:50 - 11:20    Parra, Juan: Stability of a parametric family of linear inequality systems when the strong slater condition fails
11:20 - 11:50    López, Marco Antonio: Upper Semicontinuity of the Feasible Set Mapping in Linear Semi-Infinite Programming

11:50 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 15:45    Session 15: Chair: Hou, Shui-hung

14:00 - 14:45    Shapiro, Alexander: Second order analysis of semi-definite programming problems
14:45 - 15:15    Goberna, Miguel: On linear semi-infinite systems and optimization
15:15 - 15:45    Canovas, Maria Josefa: Stability in the approximation of linear semi-infinite inequality systems by finite systems

15:45 - 16:05    Break

16:05 - 18:00    Session 16: Chair: Fischer, Andreas

16:05 - 16:50    Schaible, Siegfried: Generalized Convexity / Monotonicity in Vector Equilibrium Problems
16:50 - 17:20    Salmon, Genevieve: A Bundle Method to Solve Multivalued Variational Inequalities
17:20 - 17:40    Meziat, René: Analysis of Two Dimensional Non Convex Variational Problems by the Method of Moments
17:30 - 18:00    Oliverra, Paulo Roberto: A New Class of Proximal Algorithms for the Nonlinear Complementarity Problem

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July 14:    Excursion

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July 15:

8:00 - 9:45    Session 17: Chair: Liao, Li-Zhi

8:00 - 8:45    Auslender, Alfred: Entropic proximal methods
8:45 - 9:15    Lim, Cheng Chew: A Dual nu Support Vector Classifier for Large Scale Applications with Training Size Biasing
9:15 - 9:45    Huang, Xuexiang: On Relationships among Three Classes of Exact Penalty Functions

9:45-10:05    Break

10:05 - 11:50    Session 18: Chair: Iusem, Alfred

10:05 - 10:50    Chen, Guang-ya: On Vector Optimization Problems With Variable Domination Structures
10:50 - 11:20    Protopopescu, Vladimir: Quantum Algorithms for Continuous Global Optimization
11:20 - 11:50    Kaya, Yalcin: Two Algorithms for Optimal Control: Leapfrog and the Time-Optimal Switchings with Applications

11:50 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 15:45    Session 19: Chair: Goberna, Miguel

14:00 - 14:45    Maugeri, Antonino: Equilibrium Problems
14:45 - 15:15    Hadjisavvas, Nicolas: Continuity and maximality properties of pseudomonotone operators (in Karamardian's sense)
15:15 - 15:45    Dang, Chuangyin: A simplicial Algorithm for Computing an Integer Point of a Class of Polytopes

15:45 - 16:05    Break

16:05 - 18:00    Session 20: Chair: Gowda, Seetharama

16:05 - 16:50    Demeyanov, Vladimir: Exact Penalties in Optimal Control Problems and Calculus of Variations
16:50 - 17:20    Yang, Xinmin: Second Order Symmetric Duality In Mathematical Programming
17:20 - 17:40    Mastroeni, Giandomenico: On Auxiliary Principle and embedding in Variational Inequalities
17:40 - 18:00    Allevi, Elisabetta: Generalized Monotone Vector Variational Inequalities Over Product Sets

19:00    Banquet

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July 16:

8:00 - 9:45    Session 21: Chair: Sun, Jie

8:00 - 8:45    Rapcsák, Tamás: Optimization problems in statistics
8:45 - 9:15    Ito, Satoshi: Dual parametrization for linear semi-infinite programming
9:15 - 9:45    Iusem, Alfredo Noel: Augmented Lagrangians methods for cone-constrained convex optimization in Banach spaces

9:45 - 10:05    Break

10:05 - 11:55    Session 22: Chair: Eberhard, Andrew Craig

10:05 - 10:35    Zolezzi, Tullio: On the Condition Number Theorem in Optimization
10:35 - 11:05    Bonnel, Henri: Relations Between Almost Pareto and Almost Kuhn-Tucker in Vector Opimization
11:05 - 11:35    Liu, Wan-quan: $H_{\infty }$ Control Based on State Observer for Descriptor Systems
11:35 - 11:55    Passacantando, Mauro: Stability for equilibrium problems: from variational inequalities to dynamical systems

11:55 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 15:40    Session 23: Chair: Lopez, Marco

14:00 - 14:30    Flores-Bazan, Fabian: Existence in Vector Convex Optimization and Optimality Conditions in Non-Convex Set-Valued Minimization
14:30 - 15:00    Rebhock, Volker: The Control Parametrization Enhancing Transform for Optimal Switching Control Problems
15:00 - 15:20    Scheimberg, Susana: Robustness of the hybrid extragradient proximal point method
15:20 - 15:40    Toledo, Javier: Distance to ill-posedness and consistency value of linear semi-infinite inequality systems

15:40 - 16:00    Break

16:00 - 17:40    Session 24: Chair: Maugeri, Antonino

16:00 - 16:30    Friedlander, Ana: Solving complementarity and related problems using optimization algorithms
16:30 - 17:00    Sosa Sandoval, Wilfredo: Iterative Algorithm for Pseudomonotone Equilibrium Problems
17:00 - 17:20    Rouhani, Behzad Djafari: Fixed Point Theorems with Applications to Systems of Variational Inequalities
17:20 - 17:40    Khan, Akhtar Ali: On the envelope of a variational inequality and regularization issues for quasi variational inequalities

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July 17:    Departure Day