Optimization : Proceedings of the Fifth French-German Conference held in Castel-Novel (Varetz), France, Oct. 3-8, 1988 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1405) (1989. VIII, 220 S. 242 mm)

A smoothing technique for nondifferentiable optimization problems.- Local study of newton type algorithms for constrained problems.- Numerical study of projective methods for linear programming.- Applications and numerical convergence of the partial inverse method.- On some recent developments in the theory of second order optimality conditions.- On the method of analytic centers for solving smooth convex programs.- An optimization problem with a piecewise linear objective and conditional threshold constraints. Solution by partitioning.- ?-Regularized two-level optimization problems: Approximation and existence results.- Variational convergence and perturbed proximal method for saddle point problems.- Note on pareto optimality and duality for certain nonlinear systems.- An 0(n3L) approximate center method for linear programming.- Improvement and implementation of some algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems.- On a search problem in graph theory.- Gradient newton flows for complex polynomials.- A unified approach to projective algorithms for linear programming.- Programme of the conference.