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EPSRC Reference: GR/S02969/01
Title: Development of GALAHAD, a library of packages for the solution of large-scale nonlinear optimization problems
Principal Investigator: Duff, Professor I
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Gould, Professor N
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Department: Computational Science & Engineering
Organisation: STFC Laboratories (Grouped)
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 10 November 2002 Ends: 09 August 2003 Value (£): 6,840
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Numerical Analysis
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Information Technologies No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The solution of large-scale nonlinear optimization problems is vital for many branches of science, engineering, finance and planning. Solution algorithms should be both fast and reliable, and ideally covered by an underlying convergence theory. Sequential Quadratic Programming (SOP) methods hold such promise. We hope to consider two SOP algorithms in this light.Firstly, we wish to investigate a number of aspects concerning the new class of Filter SOP methods. Amongst issues we plan to tackle are the relaxation of 'monotonicity' of filter iterates, the subsequent constraint identification properties of such schemes, and the convergence properties (bot the rate and the type of limit point achievable). Secondly, we wish to investigate means for removing the requirement that the global solution of the quadratic programming subproblem for SI1QP methods is found. We plan to develop an approximate 'Cauchy' decrease strategy, as has been so successfully used in other trust-region methods for constrained optimization. We also plan to develop the GALAHAD software library to include SOP methods of both sorts mentioned here.
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