New Trends in Mathematical Programming Homage to Steven Vajda

Though the volume covers 22 papers by 36 authors from 12 countries, the history in the background is bound to Hungary where, in 1973 Andras Pn§kopa started to lay the foundation of a scientific forum, which can be a regular meeting spot for experts of the

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Applied Optimization Volume 13 Series Editors: Panos M. Pardalos University ofFlorida, U.sA. Donald Hearn University ofFlorida, U.SA.

The titles published in this series are listed at the end ofthis volume.

New Trends in Mathematical Programming Homage to Steven Vajda Edited by

Franco Giannessi Department ofMathematics, University ofPisa

Sandor Kom16si Faculty ofBusiness and Economics, Janus Pannonius University

and

Tamas Rapcs8.k Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4419-4793-2 ISBN 978-1-4757-2878-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-2878-1

Printed on acid-free paper

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Homage to Steven Vajda

Steven Vajda 1901-1995

CONTENTS

PREFACE

xi

STEVEN VAJDA, 1901-1995 Jakob Kramp

1

THE FERMAT-WEBER PROBLEM AND THE LAGRANGIAN DUALITY THEORY Carla Antoni, Angela Dalena

5

LONGEST FRAGMENT FIRST ALGORITHMS FOR DATA COMPRESSION Jozse/ B€kesi, Gabor Galambos and Timo Raita

13

LINEAR OPERATORS AND STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE Erio Castagnoli

29

SOME PROPERTIES OF DINI-DERIVATIVES OF QUASICONVEX FUNCTIONS J ean-Pierre Crouzei:c

41

NECESSARY CONDITIONS FOR TWOFUNCTION MINIMAX INEQUALITIES Ferenc Forgo and Istvan Joo

59

viii

FITTING CIRCLES AND SPHERES TO COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE DATA Saul!. Gass, Christoph Witzgall and Howard H. Harary

65

ON MINTY VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE Franco Giannessi

93

SINGLE-FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEMS WITH ARBITRARY WEIGHTS Galina Jalal and Jakob Krarup

101

ON TESTING SLP CODES WITH SLP-IOR P. Kall and Janos Mayer

115

ON PRIMAL-DUAL PATH-FOLLOWING ALGORITHMS FOR SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING E. de Klerk, C. Roos and T. Terlaky

137

A PIECEWISE LINEAR DUAL PROCEDURE IN MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING Istvan Maros

159

GEOMETRICAL SOLUTION OF WEIGHTED FERMAT PROBLEM ABOUT TRIANGLES Mario Martelli

171

SEPARATION AND REGULARITY IN THE IMAGE SPACE Giandomenico Mastroeni and Massimo Pappalardo

181

DYNAMIC MODELS AND GENERALIZED EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS Antonino Maugeri

191

ix

ORDERING HEURISTICS IN INTERIOR POINT LP METHODS Csaba Meszaros

203

A TABU BASED PATTERN SEARCH METHOD FOR THE DISTANCE GEOMETRY PROBLEM Panos M. Pardalos and Xin Liu

223

PROGRAMMING UNDER PROBABILISTIC CONSTRAINT WITH DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLE Andras Prekopa, Bela Vizvari and Tamas Badics

235

VARIABLE METRIC METHODS ALONG GEODETICS Tamas Rapcsak

257

CRITERIA FOR GENERALIZED MONOTONICITY Siegfried Schaible

277

ONTHEK - OUT- OF - R- FROM -N: F

SYSTEM WITH UNEQUAL ELEMENT PROBABILITIES T. Szantai and A. Habib

289

A COMMON ROOT OF THREE

MINIMIZATIO