Large Scale Optimization State of the Art

On February 15-17, 1993, a conference on Large Scale Optimization, hosted by the Center for Applied Optimization, was held at the University of Florida. The con­ ference was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Army Research Office, and

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Large Scale Optimization State of the Art

Edited by

W. W.Hager D. W. Hearn and P. M. Pardalos Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT I BOSTON I LONDON

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Large scale optimization: state of the art D.W. Hearn, and P.M. Pardalos. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references.

edited by W.W. Hager,

1. Mathematical optimization--Congresses. 2. Programming (Mathematics)--Congresses. I. Hager, W. W. (William W.) II. Hearn, D. W. !Donald W.) III. Pardalos, P. M. (Panos M.), 1954QA402.5.L355 1994 003' .71--dc20

ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-3634-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4613-3632-7

94-7972

e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-3632-7

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Contents Preface . ...................................................................... xiii Restarting Strategies for the DQA Algorithm.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 Adam J. Berger, John M. Mulvey, and Andrzej Ruszczynski 1 Introduction................................................................. 1 2 Problem Formulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3 2.1 Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Program .................................... 3 2.2· Extension to Multi-Stage Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 3 The DQA Algorithm ......................................................... 6 4 Implementation............................................................... 8 4.1 Communication......................................................... 9 4.2 Hardware ................................................................ 9 4.3 STORM Model ......................................................... 10 4.4 Financial Asset Allocation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 4.5 Numerical Results ...................................................... 11 4.6 Convergence and Speed-up .............................................. 11 4.7 Splitting Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .