Nonsmooth optimization: Theory and algorithms

GORGONE, ENRICO

2010-01-01

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Abstract

This is a summary of the author's PhD thesis supervised by Manlio Gaudioso and Maria Flavia Monaco and defended on 21 February 2008 at the Università della Calabria. The thesis is a survey on nonsmooth optimization methods for both convex and nonconvex functions. The main contribution of the dissertation is the presentation of a new bundle type method. The thesis is written in English and is available from http://www2.deis.unical.it/logilab/gorgone. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.