Advances in Global Optimization [Hardcover]

This proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimizationa multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms. The volume contains selected papers from the third biannual World Congress on Global Optimization in Engineering & Science (WCGO), held in the Yellow Mountains, Anhui, China on July 8-12, 2013. The papers fall into eight topical sections: mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization; duality theory; topology optimization; variational inequalities and complementarity problems; numerical optimization; stochastic models and simulation and complex simulation and supply chain analysis.

Part I: Mathematical Programming.
On a Reformulation of Mathematical Programs with Cardinality Constraints.
The Orthogonal Complement of Faces for Cones Associated with the Cone of Positive Semidefinite Matrices.
Optimality of Bilevel Programming Problems Through Multiobjective Reformulations.
Global sufficient conditions for nonconvex cubic minimization problem with box constraints.
An Outcome Space Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for a Class of Linear Multiplicative Programming Problems.
A Modified Cut-peak Function Method for Global Optimization.
Modified filled function method for global discrete optimization.
Constrained global optimization using a new exact penalty function.

Part II: Combinatorial Optimization.
Model Modification in Scheduling of Batch Chemical Processes.
A Multiobjective State Transition Algorithm for Single Machine Scheduling.
An approximation algorithm for the two-stage distributionally robust facility location problem.
Rainbow connection numbers for undirected double-loop networks.
A Survey on Approximation Mechanism Design without Money folƒ