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2016 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian: Sufficient Conditions for the Unsolvability and Solvability of the Absolute Value Equation Data Mining Institute Technical Report 16-01, August 2016. Optimization Letters 11(7) 2017, 1469-1475.

2014 Technical Reports

G. M. Fung & O. L. Mangasarian: Unsupervised and Semisupervised Classification via Absolute Value Inequalities Data Mining Institute Technical Report 14-03, May 2014. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 168(2) 2016, 551-558.

O. L. Mangasarian: A Hybrid Algorithm for Solving the Absolute Value Equation Data Mining Institute Technical Report 14-02, April 2014. Optimization Letters 9(7) 2015, 1469-1474.

O. L. Mangasarian: Unsupervised Classification via Convex Absolute Value Inequalities Data Mining Institute Technical Report 14-01, March 2014. Optimization 64(1) 2015, 81-86.

2013 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian: Linear Complementarity as Absolute Value Equation Solution Data Mining Institute Technical Report 13-02, March 2013. Optimization Letters 8(4) 2014, 1529-1534.

O. L. Mangasarian: Absolute Value Equation Solution via Linear Programming Data Mining Institute Technical Report 13-01, February 2013. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 161, 870-876, 2014.

2011 Technical Reports

G. M. Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Privacy-Preserving Linear and Nonlinear Approximation via Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 11-04. October 2011.

O. L. Mangasarian: Absolute Value Equation Solution via Dual Complementarity
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 11-03. September 2011. Optimization Letters, to appear.

G. M. Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Equivalence of Minimal 0-Norm and p-Norm Solutions of Linear Equalities, Inequalities and Linear Programs for Sufficiently Small p
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 11-02. April 2011. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 151, 2011, 1-10.

O. L. Mangasarian: Primal-Dual Bilinear Programming Solution of the Absolute Value Equation
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 11-01. February 2011. Optimization Letters, to appear.

2010 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian: Privacy-Preserving Horizontally Partitioned Linear Programs
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 10-02, April 2010. Optimization Letters 6(3), 431-436, 2012.

O. L. Mangasarian: Privacy-Preserving Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 10-01, March 2010. Optimization Letters 5, 165-172, 2011.

2009 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian and Benjamin Recht: Probability of Unique Integer Solution to a System of Linear Equations
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 09-02, September 2009. European Journal of Operations Research 214 (2011) 27-30.

O. L. Mangasarian and M. C. Ferris: Uniqueness of Integer Solution of Linear Equations
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 09-01, July 2009. Optimization Letters 4, 559-565, 2010.

2008 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian: Knapsack Feasibility as an Absolute Value Equation Solvable by Successive Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 08-03, September 2008. Optimization Letters 3(2) March 2009, 161-170. Online Version

O. L. Mangasarian and E.W. Wild: Privacy-Preserving Random Kernel Classification of Checkerboard Partitioned Data
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 08-02, September 2008. Annals of Information Systems XIII, 2010, 375-387.

O. L. Mangasarian: A Generlaized Newton Method for Absolute Value Equations
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 08-01, May 2008. Optimization Letters 3(1), January 2009, 101-108. Online Version

2007 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian and E. W. Wild: Privacy-Preserving Classification of Horizontally Partitioned Data via Random Kernels
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 07-03, November 2007. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Data Mining DMIN08, Las Vegas July 2008, Volume II, 473-479, R. Stahlbock, S.V. Crone and S. Lessman, Editors.

O. L. Mangasarian, E. W. Wild and G. M. Fung: Privacy-Preserving Classification of Vertically Partitioned Data via Random Kernels
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 07-02, September 2007. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Volume 2, Number 3, 2008.

O. L. Mangasarian and E. W. Wild: Exactness Conditions for a Convex Differentiable Exterior Penalty for Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 07-01, July 2007. Optimization 60, 2011, 3-14.

2006 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian and M. E. Thompson: Chunking for Massive Nonlinear Kernel Classification
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 06-07, December 2006. Optimization Methods and Software 23, 2008, 365-274.

O. L. Mangasarian and E. W. Wild: Nonlinear Knowledge in Kernel Machines
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 06-06, November 2006. CRM Proceedings \& Lecture Notes, Volume 45, American Mathematical Society and Centre de Recherches Math\'{e}matiques at the Universit\'{e} de Montr\'{e}al, 2008, 181-198.

O. L. Mangasarian, E. W. Wild and G. M. Fung: Proximal Knowledge-Based Classification
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 06-05, November 2006. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 1(4) 2009, 215-222.

O. L. Mangasarian & E. W. Wild: Nonlinear Knowledge-Based Classification
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 06-04, August 2006. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 19, October 2008, 1826-1832.

O. L. Mangasarian & E. W. Wild: Feature Selection for Nonlinear Kernel Support Vector Machines
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 06-03, July 2006. IEEE Seventh International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'07) October 28, 2007, Omaha, NE, Workshop Proceedings 231-236.

Christina Oberlin and Stephen J. Wright: An accelerated Newton method for equations with semismooth Jacobians and nonlinear complementarity problems
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Optimization Technical Report 06-02, April 2006. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 131(3), December 2006, 315-325.

O. L. Mangasarian: Absolute Value Equation Solution via Concave Minimization
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 06-02, March 2006. Optimization Letters 1(1), 2007, 3-8.

O. L. Mangasarian and M. E. Thompson: Massive Data Classification via Unconstrained Support Vector Machines
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 06-01, March 2006.

Arinbjorn Olafsson and Stephen J. Wright: Efficient Schemes for Robust IMRT Treatment Planning
Optimization Technical Report 06-01, January 2006.

2005 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian and R. R. Meyer: Absolute Value Equations
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 05-06, December 2005. Linear Algebra and Its Applications 419 (2006) 359-367.

O. L. Mangasarian and E. W. Wild: Nonlinear Knowledge in Kernel Approximation
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 05-05, October 2005. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 18, January 2007, 300-306.

O. L. Mangasarian: Absolute Value Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 05-04, September 2005. Computational Optimization and Applications 36(1), January 2007, 43-53.

O. L. Mangasarian: Exact 1-Norm Support Vector Machines via Unconstrained Convex Differentiable Minimization
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 05-03, August 2005. Journal of Machine Learning Research 7, 2006, 1517-1530.

O. L. Mangasarian and E. W. Wild: Multiple Instance Classification via Successive Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 05-02, May 2005. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 137, 2008, 555-568.

O. L. Mangasarian, J. B. Rosen and M. E. Thompson: Nonconvex Piecewise-Quadratic Underestimation for Global Minimization
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 05-01, March 2005. Journal of Global Optimization 34(4), 2006, 475-488.

2004 Technical Reports

Athula Gunawardena and Robert R. Meyer: Equi-Partitioning of Higher-Dimensional Hyper-Rectangular Grid Graphs
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Optimization Technical Report 04-01, December 2004.

O. L. Mangasarian and E. W. Wild: Multisurface Proximal Support Vector Classification via Generalized Eigenvalues
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 04-03, June 2004. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 28(1), 2006, 69-74.

O. L. Mangasarian, J. B. Rosen and M. E. Thompson: Convex Kernel Estimation of Functions with Multiple Local Minima
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 04-02, May 2004. Computational Optimization and Applications 34(1), 2006, 35-45.

O. L. Mangasarian and E. W. Wild: Feature Selection in k-Median Clustering
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 04-01, January 2004. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Workshop on Clustering High Dimensional Data and its Applications, April 24, 2004, La Buena Vista, FL, Proceedings, pages 23-28.

2003 Technical Reports

Daniel Ralph and Stephen J. Wright: Some Properties of Regularization Schemes for MPECs
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Optimization Technical Report 03-04, December 2003.

G. M. Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Breast Tumor Susceptibility to Chemotherapy via Support Vector Machines
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 03-06, November 2003. Computational Management Science 3, 2006, 103-112.

O. L. Mangasarian, J. W. Shavlik and E. W. Wild: Knowledge-Based Kernel Approximation
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 03-05, October 2003. Journal of Machine Learning Research 5, 1127-1141, 2004.

Stephen J. Wright: An Algorithm for Degenerate Nonlinear Programming with Rapid Local Convergence
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Optimization Technical Report 03-02, September 2003.

O. L. Mangasarian: Knowledge-Based Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 03-04, July 2003. SIAM Journal on Optimization 15, 2005, 375-382.

O. L. Mangasarian, J. B. Rosen and M. E. Thompson: Global Minimization via Piecewise-Linear Underestimation
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 03-03, June 2003. Journal of Global Oprimization 32, 2005, 1-9.

Jin-Ho Lim, Michael C. Ferris and David M. Shepard: Optimization Tools for Radiation Treatment Planning in Matlab
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Optimization Technical Report 03-01, March 2003.

G. M. Fung, O. L. Mangasarian and J. W. Shavlik: Knowledge-Based Nonlinear Kernel Classifiers
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 03-02, March 2003. Conference On Learning Theory (COLT 03) and Workshop on Kernel Machines, Washington, D.C., August 24 - 27, 2003. Proceedings edited by Manfred Warmuth and Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003, 102-113.

O. L. Mangasarian: Support Vector Machine Classification via Parameterless Robust Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 03-01, March 2003. Optimization Methods and Software 20(1), 2005, 115-125.

2002 Technical Reports

Meta Voelker PhD Thesis: Optimization of Slice Models
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Optimization Technical Report 02-12, December 2002.

Jin-Ho Lim PhD Thesis: Optimization in Radiation Treatment Planning
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Optimization Technical Report 02-11, December 2002. This work was supported under AFOSR Grant F49620-01-1-0040 and NSF Grants CCR-997237 and ACI-0113051.

Jin-Ho Lim, Michael C. Ferris, Stephen J. Wright, David M. Shepard and Matthew A. Earl: An Optimization Framework for Conformal Radiation Treatment Planning
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Optimization Technical Report 02-10, December 2002.

E. Michael Gertz and Philip E. Gill: A Primal-Dual Trust Region Algorithm for Nonlinear Optimization
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Optimization Technical Report 02-09, October 2002.

Michael C. Ferris, Robert R. Meyer and Warren D'Souza: Radiation Treatment Planning: Mixed Integer Programming Formulations and Approaches
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Optimization Technical Report 02-08, October 2002.

Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: A Feature Selection Newton Method for Support Vector Machine Classification
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 02-03, September 2002. Computational Optimization and Apllications 28(2) 185-202, 2004.

J. T. Linderoth and S. J. Wright: Decomposition algorithms for stochastic programming on a computational grid
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Optimization Technical Report 02-07, September 2002.
(Revision of Preprint ANL/MCS-P875-0401, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory, April, 2001.)

M. J. Tenny, S. J. Wright, and J. B. Rawlings: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control via Feasibility-Perturbed Sequential Quadratic Programming
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Optimization Technical Report 02-06, August 2002.

S. J. Wright and M. J. Tenny: A Feasible Trust-Region Sequential Quadratic Programming Algorithm
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Optimization Technical Report 02-05, August 2002.

Winston C. Yang: Maximal and minimal polyhexes
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Optimization Technical Report 02-04, June 2002.

Winston C. Yang and Robert R. Meyer: Maximal and minimal polyiamonds
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Optimization Technical Report 02-03, May 2002.

O. L. Mangasarian: A Newton Method for Linear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 02-02, March 2002. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 121, 2004, 1-18.

Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Finite Newton Method for Lagrangian Support Vector Machine Classification
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 02-01, February 2002. Neurocomputing 55, September 2003, 39-55.

J. T. Linderoth, A. Shapiro, and S. J. Wright: The Empirical Behavior of Sampling Methods for Stochastic Programming
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Optimization Technical Report 02-01, January 2002.

2001 Technical Reports

Michael C. Ferris, Jin-Ho Lim and David M. Shepard: An Optimization Approach for Radiosurgery Treatment Planning
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-12, November 2001.

O. L. Mangasarian: Finite Newton Method for Classification Problems
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-11, December 2001. Optimization Methods and Software 17, 2002, 913-929.

O. L. Mangasarian: Set Containment Characterization
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-10, November 2001. Journal of Global Optimization 24(4) December 2002, 473-480.

Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian and Jude Shavlik: Knowledge-Based Support Vector Machine Classifiers
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-09, November 2001. ``Neural Information Processing Systems 15", S. Becker, S. Thrun and K. Obermeyer, editors, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003, 521-528.

E. Michael Gertz and Stephen J. Wright: Object-Oriented Software for Quadratic Programming
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Optimization Technical Report 01-02, October 2001.

Jeff Linderoth and Stephen J. Wright: Computational Grids for Stochastic Programming
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Optimization Technical Report 01-01, October 2001.

G. Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Incremental Support Vector Machine Classification
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-08, September 2001. Proceedings of the Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Arlington, Virginia, April 11-13, 2002,R. Grossman, H. Mannila and R. Motwani (editors), SIAM, Philadelphia 2002, 247-260.

Michael C. Ferris and Meta M. Voelker: Cross-Validation, Support Vector Machines and Slice Models
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-07, August 2001.

G. Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Multicategory Proximal Support Vector Machine Classifiers
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-06, July 2001. Machine Learning 59, 2005, 77-97.

O. L. Mangasarian: Data Mining via Support Vector Machines
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-05, May 2001. IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Trier, Germany, July 23-27, 2001. ``System Modeling and Optimization XX", E. W. Sachs and R. Tichatschke, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston 2003, 91-112.

Krung Sinapiromsaran and Michael C. Ferris: Simulation Optimization Based on a Heterogeneous Computing Environment
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-04, March 2001.

Y.-J. Lee, O. L. Mangasarian and W. H. Wolberg: Survival-Time Classification of Breast Cancer Patients
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-03, March 2001. Computational Optimization and Applications, 25(1-3), 2003, 151-166.

Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Proximal Support Vector Machine Classifiers
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-02, February 2001. Proceedings KDD-2001, San Francisco August 26-29, 2001. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 2001, 77-86.

Michael C. Ferris, Jin-Ho Lim and David M. Shepard: Radiosurgery Treatment Planning via Nonlinear Programming
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 01-01, January 2001.

2000 Technical Reports

Krung Sinapiromsaran: Practical Optimization of Simulation: Computation and Tools
Mathematical Programming Technical Report MP 00-07, December 2000.

W.W. Donaldson and Robert R. Meyer: A Dynamic-Programming Heuristic for Regular Grid-Graph Partitioning
Mathematical Programming Technical Report MP 00-06, December 2000.

Michael C. Ferris and Meta M. Voelker: Slice Models in General Purpose Modeling Systems
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-10, December 2000.

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Semismooth Support Vector Machines
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Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-09, November 2000.

Glenn Fung, O. L. Mangasarian and Alexander J. Smola: Minimal Kernel Classifiers
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-08, November 2000. Journal of Machine Learning Research 3, 2002, 303-321.

Francisco J. Gonzalez-Castano and Robert R. Meyer: Projection Support Vector Machines
Mathematical Programming Technical Report MP 00-05, November 2000.

Francisco J. Gonzalez-Castano and Robert R. Meyer: Chunking-Synthetic Approaches to Large-Scale Kernel Machines
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Mathematical Programming Technical Report MP 00-04, October 2000.

Qun Chen: A Large Scale Integer and Combinatorial Optimizer
Mathematical Programming Technical Report MP 00-03, September 2000.

Todd S. Munson: Algorithms and Environments for Complementarity
Mathematical Programming Technical Report MP 00-02, August 2000.

Yuh-Jye Lee and O. L. Mangasarian: RSVM: Reduced Support Vector Machines
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-07, July 2000. CD Proceedings of the First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Chicago, April 5-7, 2001, SIAM, Philadelphia, ISBN 0-89871-495-8.

O. L. Mangasarian and David R. Musicant: Lagrangian Support Vector Machines
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-06, June 2000. Journal of Machine Learning Research 1, March 2001, 161-177. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/jmlr/

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Interior Point Methods for Massive Support Vector Machines
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-05, May 2000.

O. L. Mangasarian and David R. Musicant: Active Set Support Vector Machine Classification
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-04, April 2000. Neural Information Processing Systems 2000 (NIPS 2000), Todd K. Lee, Thomas G. Dietterich and Volker Tresp, editors, MIT Press 2001, 577-583.

Michael C. Ferris, Todd S. Munson and Krung Sinapiromsaran: A Practical Approach to Sample-Path Simulation Optimization
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In J.A. Joines, R.R. Barton, K. Kang, and P.A. Fishwick, editors, Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, pages 795--804, Omnipress, Orlando, Florida, 2000.

Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Data Selection for Support Vector Machine Classifiers
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 00-02, February 2000. Proceedings KDD-2000, August 20-23, 2000, Boston. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 2000, 64-70. ISBN 1-58113-233-6.

Jean-Claude De Bremaecker and Michael C. Ferris: A comparison of two algorithms for solving closed crack problems
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 66:601--605, 2000.

Michael C. Ferris and David M. Shepard: Optimization of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
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In D.-Z. Du, P. Pardolas, and J. Wang, editors, Discrete Mathematical Problems with Medical Applications, volume 55 of DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, pages 27--44, American Mathematical Society, 2000.

1999 Technical Reports

Vatin Chalermdamrichai, Dharmaraj Veeramani, and Robert Meyer: A Mathematical Model and Solution Methodologies for Optimal Process Planning on Four-Axis CNC Turning Centers (PDF file here)
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 99-10, December 1999.

Qun Chen, Michael C. Ferris and Jeff T. Linderoth: FATCOP 2.0: Advanced Features on an Opportunistic Mixed Integer Programming Solver
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-11, December 1999 (revised April 2000).

Y.-J. Lee, O. L. Mangasarian and W. H. Wolberg: Breast Cancer Survival and Chemotherapy: A Support Vector Machine Analysis
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-10, December 1999. DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, Volume 55, American Mathematical Society, 2000, 1-10.

O. L. Mangasarian and David R. Musicant: Robust Linear and Support Vector Regression
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-09, November 1999. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 22, 2000, 950-955.

Glenn Fung and O. L. Mangasarian: Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines for Labeled and Unlabeled Data Classification
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-05, October 1999. Optimization Methods and Sotware 15, 2001, 29-44.

Michael C. Ferris, Todd S. Munson and Danny Ralph: A homotopy method for mixed complementarity problems based on the PATH solver
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In D.F. Griffiths and G.A. Watson, editors, Numerical Analysis 1999, Research Notes in Mathematics, pages 143--167, Chapman and Hall, London, 2000.

Alex J. Smola, Olvi L. Mangasarian and Bernhard Schoelkopf: Sparse Kernel Feature Analysis
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-04, October 1999. 24th Annual Conference of Gesellschaft f\"urüKlassifikation, University of Passau, Passau, Germany March 15-17, 2000.

Warren D. D'Souza, Robert R. Meyer, Michael C. Ferris, and Bruce R. Thomadsen: MIP Models and BB Strategies in Brachytherapy Treatment Optimization
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Mathematical Programming Technical Report 99-08, September 1999. Revised June 2001.

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Preprocessing Complementarity Problems
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Mathematical Programming Technical Report 99-07, September 1999.

Y.-J. Lee and O. L. Mangasarian: SSVM: A Smooth Support Vector Machine for Classification
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-03, September 1999. Computational Optimization and Applications 20, 2001, 5-22.

O. L. Mangasarian and David R. Musicant: Massive Support Vector Regression
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-02, August 1999. Machine Learning 46 (1/3):255-269, January 2002.

Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Ferris and Mary K. Vernon: Models for Optimized Regional Caching in Heterogeneous Video-On-Demand Systems.
Computer Sciences Department Technical Report 1402, August 1999.

P. S. Bradley, O. L. Mangasarian and David R. Musicant: Optimization Methods in Massive Datasets
Data Mining Institute Technical Report 99-01, June 1999. "Handbook of Massive Datasets", J. Abello , P. M. Pardalos, M. G. C. Resende, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, 439-472.

Todd S. Munson, Francisco Facchinei, Michael C. Ferris, Andreas Fischer and Christian Kanzow: The Semismooth Algorithm for Large Scale Complementarity Problems
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Mathematical Programming Technical Report 99-06, June 1999.

Qun Chen and Michael C. Ferris: FATCOP: A Fault Tolerant Condor-PVM Mixed Integer Program Solver
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Mathematical Programming Technical Report 99-05, March 1999.

Michael C. Ferris and Robert R. Meyer: Models and Solution for On-Demand Data Delivery Problems.
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Approximation and Complexity in Numerical Optimization: Continuous and Discrete Problems, volume 42 of Nonconvex Optimization and its Applications, pages 175--188, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000.

O. L. Mangasarian and David R. Musicant: Data Discrimination via Nonlinear Generalized Support Vector Machines
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 99-03, March 1999. ``Complementarity: Algorithms, Applications and Extensions", M. C. Ferris, O. L. Mangasarian and J.-S. Pang, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, Dordrecht, 233-251.

Francis Tin-Loi and Michael C. Ferris: Complementarity Problems in Engineering and Mechanics: Models and Solution.
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In C.M. Wang, K.H. Lee, and K.K. Ang, editors, Computational Mechanics for the Next Millenium, volume 2 of Proceedings of APCOM '99, Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Mechanics, pages 1029--1036. Elsevier Science Ltd, 1999.

Michael C. Ferris and Francis Tin-Loi: Limit analysis of frictional block assemblies as a mathematical program with complementarity constraints.
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International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 43:209--224, 2001.

1998 Technical Reports

Michael C. Ferris and Krung Sinapiromsaran: Formulating and Solving Nonlinear Programs as Mixed Complementarity Problems.
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In J.J. Strodiot, editor, 9th BFG Conference on Optimization (Namur, September 7-11, 1998). Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Linear Programming for Emergency Broadcast Systems.
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SIAG/OPT Newsletter, Volume 10, pages 6-8, Spring 1999.

Michael C. Ferris: MATLAB and GAMS: Interfacing Optimization and Visualization Software.
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Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-19, November 1998.

O. L. Mangasarian and David R. Musicant: Successive Overrelaxation for Support Vector Machines.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-18, November 1998. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 10, 1999, 1032-1037.

Michael C. Ferris and Christian Kanzow: Complementarity and Related Problems: A Survey.
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In P.M. Pardalos and M.G.C. Resende, editors, Handbook of Applied Optimization, forthcoming. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Case Studies in Complementarity: Improving Model Formulation.
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In M. Thera and R. Tichatschke, editors, Ill--Posed Variational Problems and Regularization Techniques, number 477 in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, pages 79--98. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999.

Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Ferris and Mary K. Vernon: Optimized Caching in Systems with Heterogeneous Client Systems.
Performance Evaluation, 42:163--185, 2000.

O. L. Mangasarian: Generalized Support Vector Machines.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-14, October 1998. ``Advances in Large Margin Classifiers", A. J. Smola, P. Bartlett, B. Sch\"{o}lkopf and D. Schuurmans, editors, MIT Press, 2000, 135-146.

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Modeling Languages and Condor: Metacomputing for Optimization.
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Mathematical Programming, 88:487--506, 2000.

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Complementarity Problems in GAMS and the PATH Solver.
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Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 24:165--188, 2000.

P. S. Bradley: Mathematical Programming Approaches to Machine Learning and Data Mining.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-11, September 1998.

Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Ferris and Mary K. Vernon: Optimized Regional Caching for On-Demand Data Delivery.
In Multimedia Computing and Networking, Proceedings of SPIE, volume 3654, Bellingham, Washington, 1999.

Christian Kanzow: Global Optimization Techniques for Mixed Complementarity Problems.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-09, July 1998.

P. S. Bradley and O. L. Mangasarian: k-Plane Clustering.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-08, August 1998. Journal of Global Optimization 16, 2000, 23-32.

David M. Shepard, Michael C. Ferris, Gustavo Olivera and Thomas R. Mackie: Optimizing the Delivery of Radiation to Cancer Patients.
SIAM Review, 41:721--744, 1999.

Francisco Facchinei, Andreas Fischer and Christian Kanzow: On the identification of zero variables in an interior-point framework.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-06, May 1998.

P. S. Bradley and O. L. Mangasarian: Massive Data Discrimination via Linear Support Vector Machines.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-05, May 1998. Optimization Methods and Software 13(1), 2000, 1-10.

Michael C. Ferris, Christian Kanzow and Todd S. Munson: Feasible Descent Algorithms for Mixed Complementarity Problems.
Mathematical Programming, 86:475--497, 1999.

P. S. Bradley and O. L. Mangasarian: Feature Selection via Concave Minimization and Support Vector Machines.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-03, February 1998. ``Machine Learning Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference (ICML '98)", Madison, WI, July 24-27, 1998, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA 1998, 82-90.

Michael C. Ferris, Robert Fourer and David M. Gay: Expressing Complementarity Problems in an Algebraic Modeling Language and Communicating Them to Solvers.
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 9:991--1009, 1999.

P. S. Bradley, Usama M. Fayyad and O. L. Mangasarian: Mathematical Programming for Data Mining: Formulations and Challenges.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 98-01, January 1998. Revised July 1998. INFORMS Journal on Computing 11, 1999, 217-238.

1997 Technical Reports

Ji-Ming Peng, Christian Kanzow and Masao Fukushima: A Hybrid Newton Method for Solving Box Constrained Variational Inequality Problems via the D-Gap Function
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-16, December 1997.

Tecla De Luca, Francisco Facchinei and Christian Kanzow: A Theoretical and Numerical Comparison of some Semismooth Algorithms for Complementarity Problems
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-15, December 1997.

Christian Kanzow and Masao Fukushima: Solving Box Constrained Variational Inequality Problems by Using the Natural Residual with D-gap Function Globalization
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-14, November 1997.

O. L. Mangasarian: Regularized Linear Programs with Equilibrium Constraints.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-13, November 1997. ``Reformulation-Nonsmooth, Piecewise Smooth, Semismooth and Smoothing Methods". M. Fukushima and Liqun Qi, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 259-268.

Michael C. Ferris and Todd S. Munson: Interfaces to PATH 3.0: Design, Implementation and Usage.
Computational and Applied Optimization 12: 207--227, 1999.

P. S. Bradley & O. L. Mangasarian: Parsimonious Side Propagation.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-11, October 1997. ICASSP98: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle May 12-15, 1998, Volume 3, 1873-1876.

O. L. Mangasarian: Polyhedral Boundary Projection.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-10, October 1997. SIAM Journal on Optimization 9, 1999, 1128-1134.

Steven P. Dirkse and Michael C. Ferris: Modeling and Solution Environments for MPEC: GAMS & MATLAB.
In M. Fukushima and L. Qi, editors, Reformulation: Nonsmooth, Piecewise Smooth, Semismooth and Smoothing Methods, pages 127--148. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

Christian Kanzow and Heiko Pieper: Jacobian Smoothing Methods for General Nonlinear Complementarity Problems
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-08, October 1997. To appear in SIAM Journal on Optimization.

O. L. Mangasarian: Arbitrary-Norm Separating Plane.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-07, May 1997, Operations Research Letters. Operations Research Letters 24, 1999, 15-23.

Steven P. Dirkse and Michael C. Ferris: Traffic Modeling and Variational Inequalities using GAMS.
In Ph.L. Toint, M. Labbe, K. Tanczos, and G. Laporte, editors, Operations Research and Decision Aid Methodologies in Traffic and Transportation Management, volume 166 of NATO ASI Series F, pages 136--163. Springer-Verlag, 1998.

O. L. Mangasarian: Minimum-Support Solutions of Polyhedral Concave Programs.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-05, April 1997. Revised March 1998. Optimization 45, 1999, 149-162.

Michael C. Ferris and Andrzej Ruszczynski: Robust path choice and vehicle guidance in networks with failures.
Networks, 35:181--194, 2000.

P. S. Bradley, O. L. Mangasarian and J. B. Rosen: Parsimonious Least Norm Approximation.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-03, March 1997, Computational Optimization and Applications, 11, 1998, 5-21.

Jonathan Yackel, Robert R. Meyer, and Ioannis Christou: Minimum-Perimeter Domain Assignment.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 97-02, February 1997.

Jonathan Eckstein and Michael C. Ferris: Smooth Methods of Multipliers for Complementarity Problems.
Mathematical Programming, 86:65--90, 1999.

1996 Technical Reports

Ioannis T. Christou, Wayne Martin, and Robert R. Meyer: Genetic Algorithms as Multi-Coordinators in Large-Scale Optimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-14, December 1996.

R.R. Meyer and G. Zakeri: Synchronous and Asynchronous Multi-Coordination Methods for the Solution of Block-Angular Programs.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-13, December 1996.

Michael C. Ferris and Sergei K. Zavriev: The Linear Convergence of a Successive Linear Programming Algorithm.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-12, December 1996.

Edward J. Anderson and Michael C. Ferris: A Direct Search Algorithm for Optimization with Noisy Function Evaluations.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-11, November 1996 (Revised January 1999).

O. L. Mangasarian: Solution of General Linear Complementarity Problems via Nondifferentiable Concave Minimization. Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, 22(1), 1997, 199-205.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-10, November 1996.

Ioannis T. Christou: Distributed Genetic Algorithms for Partitioning Uniform Grids.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-09, October 1996.

Michael C. Ferris, Michael Mesnier and Jorge J. More': NEOS and CONDOR: Solving Optimization Problems over the Internet.
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ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 26:1--18, 2000.

O. L. Mangasarian and M. V. Solodov: A Linearly Convergent Descent Method for Strongly Monotone Complementarity Problems.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-07, October 1996. Computational Optimization and Applications 14, 1999, 5-16.

O. L. Mangasarian and Jong-Shi Pang: Exact Penalty Functions for Mathematical Programs with Linear Complementarity Constraints.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-06, August 1996. Optimization 42(1), 1997, 1-8.

O. L. Mangasarian: Mathematical Programming in Data Mining
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-05, August 1996 -- Revised November 1996 and March 1997. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 1(2), 1997, 183-201.

O. L. Mangasarian: Error Bounds for Nondifferentiable Convex Inequalities under a Strong Slater Constraint Qualification.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-04, July 1996. Revised March 1997. Mathematical Programming A, 83, 1998, 187-194.

P. S. Bradley, O. L. Mangasarian and W. N. Street: Clustering via Concave Minimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-03, May 1996. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems -9-, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997, 368-374.

Wayne A. Martin: Fast Equi-Partitioning of Rectangular Domains using Stripe Decomposition.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-02, February 1996.

W. N. Street, O. L. Mangasarian and W. H. Wolberg: Individual and Collective Prognostic Prediction.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 96-01, January 1996.

1995 Technical Reports

Steven P. Dirkse and Michael C. Ferris: Crash Techniques for Large-Scale Complementarity Problems.
In Complementarity and Variational Problems: State of the Art, M.C. Ferris and J.S. Pang, editors, SIAM Publications, Philadelphia, 1997.

P. S. Bradley, O. L. Mangasarian and W. N. Street: Feature Selection via Mathematical Programming.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-21, December 1995. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 10, 1998, 209-217.

O. L. Mangasarian: Machine Learning via Polyhedral Concave Minimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-20, November 1995. "Applied Mathematics and Parallel Computing -- Festschrift for Klaus Ritter", H. Fischer, B. Riedmueller, S. Schaeffler, editors, Physica-Verlag, Germany 1996, 175-188.

Ioannis T. Christou and Robert R. Meyer: Optimal and Asymptotically Optimal Equi-partition of Rectangular Domains via Stripe Decomposition.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-19, November 1995.

Spyridon Kontogiorgis and Robert R. Meyer: A Variable-Penalty Alternating Directions Method for Convex Optimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-18, November 1995. Submitted to Mathematical Programming

Armand A. Zakarian, Ph.D. Dissertation: Nonlinear Jacobi and Epsilon-Relaxation Methods for Parallel Network Optimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-17, October 1995.

Stephen C. Billups, Steven P. Dirkse and Michael C. Ferris: A Comparison of Large Scale Mixed Complementarity Problem Solvers.
Computational Optimization and Applications 7, (1997), 3-25.

O. L. Mangasarian: The Ill-Posed Linear Complementarity Problem.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-15, August 1995. ``Complementarity and variational problems", M. C. Ferris and J.-S. Pang, editors, SIAM Publishers, Philadelphia, PA 1997, 226-233.

Stephen Billups, Ph.D. Dissertation: Algorithms for Complementarity Problems and Generalized Equations.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-14, August 1995.

Michael V. Solodov, Ph.D. Dissertation: Nonmonotone and Perturbed Optimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-13, August 1995.

Chunhui Chen, Ph.D. Dissertation: Smoothing Methods in Mathematical Programming.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-12, August 1995.

W. Nick Street and O. L. Mangasarian: Improved Generalization via Tolerant Training.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-11, July 1995, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 96, 1998, 259-297.

Michael C. Ferris and Thomas F. Rutherford: Accessing Realistic Mixed Complementarity Problems within MATLAB.
Proceedings of Nonlinear Optimization and Applications Workshop, Erice June 1995, Plenum Press.

Stephen C. Billups and Michael C. Ferris: QPCOMP: A Quadratic Programming Based Solver for Mixed Complementarity Problems.
Mathematical Programming 76, pp. 513-532, 1997.

Golbon Zakeri, Ph.D. Dissertation: Multi-Coordination Methods for Parallel Solution of Block-angular Programs.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-08, May 1995.

Michael C. Ferris and Jong Shi Pang: Engineering and Economic Applications of Complementarity Problems.
SIAM Review 39 (1997) pp. 669--713.

O. L. Mangasarian: Mathematical Programming in Machine Learning.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-06, April 1995, Revised July 1995. "Nonlinear Optimization and Applications", G. Di Pillo and F. Giannessi, editors, Proceedings of Nonlinear Optimization and Applications Workshop, Erice, June 1995, Plenum Press, New York 1996, 283-295.

Chunhui Chen and O. L. Mangasarian: Hybrid Misclassification Minimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-05, February 1995, Revised July 1995 and August 1995. Computational Mathematics 5(2) 1996, 127-136.

I. T. Christou and R. R. Meyer: Optimal Equi-Partition of Rectangular Domains for Parallel Computation.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-04, February 1995 Submitted to 1st International Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research.

Michael C. Ferris, Alexander Meeraus and Thomas F. Rutherford: Computing Wardropian Equilibria in a Complementarity Framework.
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Optimization Methods and Software, 10:669--685, 1999.

Renato De Leone, Robert R. Meyer and Armand Zakarian: An epsilon--relaxation algorithm for convex network flow problems.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-02, February 1995. Submitted to Operations Research.

O. L. Mangasarian: Optimization in Machine Learning.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 95-01, January 1995. SIAG/OPT Views-and-News 6, 1995, 3-7.

1994 Technical Reports

Jonathan Eckstein and Michael C. Ferris: Operator Splitting Methods for Monotone Affine Variational Inequalities, with a Parallel Application to Optimal Control.
INFORMS Journal on Computing, 10:218--235, 1998.

Michael C. Ferris, S. Lucidi and M. Roma: Nonmonotone Curvilinear Stabilization Techniques for Unconstrained Optimization.
Computational Optimization and Applications 6, 117-136 (1996).

Stephen C. Billups and Michael C. Ferris: Solutions to Affine Generalized Equations using Proximal Mappings.
Mathematics of Operations Research, 24:219--236, 1999.

W. Nick Street, Ph.D. Dissertation: Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis via Linear-Programming-Based Machine Learning.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-14, August 1994.

Spyridon Kontogiorgis, Ph.D. Dissertation: Alternating Directions Methods for the Parallel Solution of Large-Scale Block-Structured Optimization Problems.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-13, August 1994. Revised June 7, 1995.

Steven P. Dirkse, Ph.D. Dissertation: Robust Solution of Mixed Complementarity Problems.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-12, August 1994.

Chunhui Chen and O. L. Mangasarian: A Class of Smoothing Functions for Nonlinear and Mixed Complementarity Problems.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-11, August 1994. Revised October 1994, February 1995 and September 1995. Computational Optimization and Applications 5, 1996, 97-138.

O. L. Mangasarian, W. Nick Street and W. H. Wolberg: Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis via Linear Programming.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-10, August 1994. Revised December 1994. Operations Research 43(4), July-August 1995, 570-577.

O. L. Mangasarian: The Linear Complementarity Problem as a Separable Bilinear Program.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-09, July 1994. Journal of Global Optimization 6, 1995, 153-161.

Michael C. Ferris and Daniel Ralph: Projected Gradient Methods for Nonlinear Complementarity Problems via Normal Maps.
Recent Advances in Nonsmooth Optimization (D.-Z. Du, L. Qi and R. Womersley, editors) 57-87, World Scientific Publishers, 1995.

S. P. Dirkse, Michael C. Ferris, P. V. Preckel and T. Rutherford: The GAMS Callable Program Library for Variational and Complementarity Solvers.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-07, June 1994.

O. L. Mangasarian and M. V. Solodov: Backpropagation Convergence via Deterministic Nonmonotone Perturbed Minimization.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-06, June 1994. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6, (J. D. Cowan, G. Tesauro and J. Alspector, editors) 383-390, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California 1994.

M. V. Solodov and S. K. Zavriev: Stability Properties of the Gradient Projection Method with Applications to the Backpropagation Algorithm.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-05, June 1994. Submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization.

M. V. Solodov and P. Tseng: Modified Projection-Type Methods for Monotone Variational Inequalities.
Mathematical Programming Technical Report 94-04, May 1994. Revised January 1995. To appear in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.

Steven P. Dirkse and Michael C. Ferris: A Pathsearch Damped Newton Method for Computing General Equilibria.
Annals of Operations Research 68:211-232, 1996.

Menglin Cao and Michael C. Ferris: Lineality Removal for Copositive-Plus Normal Maps.
Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis 38 (1995), 1-10.

Menglin Cao and Michael C. Ferris: P_C matrices and the Linear Complementarity Problem.
Linear Algebra and its Applications 246, (1996), 299-312.

CS Technical Reports on Mathematical Programming, Partial List

1994 Technical Reports

Michael C. Ferris and Jeffrey D. Horn: Partitioning Mathematical Programs for Parallel Solution.
Mathematical Programming, 80:35--62, 1998.

Renato DeLeone, Robert R. Meyer and Spyridon Kontogiorgis: Alternating Direction Splittings for Block-Angular Parallel Optimization.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1217, February 1994.

Steven P. Dirkse and Michael C. Ferris: MCPLIB: A Collection of Nonlinear Mixed Complementarity Problems.
Optimization Methods and Software 5, 319-345, 1995.

Menglin Cao, PhD. Thesis: Piecewise Linear Homotopies and Affine Variational Inequalities.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1210, January 1994.

Michael C. Ferris and Jong Shi Pang: Nondegenerate Solutions and Related Concepts in Affine Variational Inequalities.
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 34, 244-253,1996.

1993 Technical Reports

Edward J. Anderson and Michael C. Ferris: Genetic algorithms for combinatorial optimization: The assembly line balancing problem.
ORSA Journal on Computing, 6:161-173, 1994.

Chunhui Chen and O. L. Mangasarian: Smoothing Methods for Convex Inequalities and Linear Complementarity Problems.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1191r, November 1993. Revised November 1994. Mathematical Programming 71, 1995, 51-69.

O. L. Mangasarian and Jong Shi Pang: The Extended Linear Complementarity Problem.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1188, 1993. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 16, January 1995, 359-368.

O. L. Mangasarian: Misclassification Minimization.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1186, October 1993. Revised September 1994. Journal of Global Optimization 5(4), December 1994, 309-323. Journal of Global Optimization 5(4), December 1994, 309-323.

Stephen C. Billups and Michael C. Ferris: Convergence of Infeasible Interior-Point Algorithms From Arbitrary Positive Starting Points.
SIAM Journal on Optimization 6, (1996), 316-325.

Steven P. Dirkse and Michael C. Ferris: The PATH Solver: A Non-Monotone Stabilization Scheme for Mixed Complementarity Problems.
Optimization Methods and Software 5, 123-156, 1995.

J. V. Burke and Michael C. Ferris: A Gauss-Newton Method for Convex Composite Optimization.
Mathematical Programming 71, (1995), 179-194.

Michael C. Ferris and Olvi L. Mangasarian: Parallel Variable Distribution.
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 4(4), November 1994, 815-832.

O. L. Mangasarian: Error Bounds for Inconsistent Linear Inequalities and Programs.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1166, July 1993. Operations Research Letters 15, May 1994, 187-192.

K. P. Bennett and O. L. Mangasarian: Serial and Parallel Multicategory Discrimination. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 4(4), November 1994, 722-734.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1165, 1993.

O. L. Mangasarian and Jun Ren: New Improved Error Bounds for the Linear Complementarity Problem. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 4(4), November 1994, 722-734.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1156, 1993.

O. L. Mangasarian and M. V. Solodov: Serial and Parallel Backpropagation for Neural Nets via Nonmonotone Perturbed Minimnization.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1149r, April 1993. Revised December 1993. Optimization Methods and Software 4, 1994, 103-116.

O. L. Mangasarian: Parallel Gradient Distribution in Unconstrained Optimization.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1145, 1993. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 33(6), 1995, 1916-1925.

1992 Technical Reports

O. L. Mangasarian: Mathematical Programming in Neural Networks.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1129, 1992. ORSA Journal on Computing 5, 1993, 349-360.

K. P. Bennett and O. L. Mangasarian: Multicategory Discrimination via Linear Programming.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1127, 1992. Optimization Methods and Software 3, 1994, 27-39.

Menglin Cao and Michael C. Ferris: A Pivotal Method for Affine Variational Inequalities.
Mathematics of Operations Research 21, (1996), 44-64.

Z. Q. Luo, O. L. Mangasarian, Jun Ren and M. V. Solodov: New Error Bounds for the Linear Complementarity Problem.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1112, 1992. Mathematics of Operations Research 19(4), November 1994, 880-892.

K. P. Bennett and O. L. Mangasarian: Bilinear Separation of Two Sets in n-Space.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1109, 1992. Computational Optimization and Applications 2, 1993, 207-227.

Menglin Cao and Michael C. Ferris: An Interior Point Algorithm for Monotone Affine Variational Inequalities.
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 83, (1994), 269-284.

Jonathan Yackel and Robert R. Meyer: Minimum-Perimeter Domain Decomposition.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1078, February 1992.

O. L. Mangasarian and M. V. Solodov: Nonlinear Complementarity as Unconstrained and Constrained Minimization.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1074, 1992. Mathematical Programming, Series B, 62, 1993, 277-297.

1991 Technical Reports

Michael C. Ferris and Olvi L. Mangasarian: Error Bounds and Strong Upper Semicontinuity for Monotone Affine Variational Inequalities.
Annals of Operations Research, 47, 1993, 293-305.

K. P. Bennett and O. L. Mangasarian: Robust Linear Programming Discrimination of Two Linearly Inseparable Sets.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1054a, 1991. Optimization Methods and Software 1, 1992, 23-34.

J. V. Burke and Michael C. Ferris: Weak Sharp Minima in Mathematical Programming.
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 31, (1993), 1340-1359.

Jonathan Yackel and Robert R. Meyer: Optimal Tilings for Parallel Database Design.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1046, September 1991.

Michael C. Ferris and S. Lucidi: Globally Convergent Methods for Nonlinear Equations.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1030, 1991. (Revised version: Nonmonotone stabilization methods for nonlinear equations, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 81:53--71, 1994.)

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Robert R. Meyer, Gary L. Schultz and Jonathan Yackel: Optimal Processor Assignment for Parallel Database Design.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 1022, May 1991.

Michael C. Ferris: Parallel Constraint Distribution in Convex Quadratic Programming.
Mathematics of Operations Research 19, (1994), 645-658.

Kristin P. Bennett, Michael C. Ferris and Yannis E. Ioannidis: A Genetic Algorithm for Database Query Optimization.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, R. K. Belew and L. B. Booker (eds), Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, (1991), 400-407.

O. L. Mangasarian: Global Error Bounds for Monotone Affine Variational Inequality Problems.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 998, 1991. Linear Algebra and Its Applications 174, 1992, 153-164.

1990 Technical Reports

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Robert R. Meyer, Gary L. Schultz and Jonathan Yackel: Optimal Balanced Assignments and a Parallel Database Application.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 986, December 1990.

Michael C. Ferris and O. L. Mangasarian: Parallel Constraint Distribution.
SIAM Journal on Optimization 1, 1991, 487-500.

O. L. Mangasarian and W. H. Wolberg: Cancer Diagnosis via Linear Programming. SIAM News 23(5), September 1990, pp. 1 \& 18.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 958, 1990.

K. P. Bennett and O. L. Mangasarian: Neural Network Training via Linear Programming.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 948, 1990. P. M. Pardalos (Editor), ``Advances in Optimization and Parallel Computing", North Holland, Amsterdam 1992, 56-67.

Gary L. Schultz and Robert R. Meyer: A Structured Interior Point Method.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 934, May 1990.

Gary L. Schultz and Robert R. Meyer: A Three-Phase Algorithm for Block-Structured Optimization.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 932, May 1990.

Edward J. Anderson and Michael C. Ferris: A Genetic Algorithm for the Assembly Line Balancing Problem.
Proceedings of the Integer Programming / Combinatorial Optimization Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 28--30

Michael C. Ferris and Milan Vlach: Scheduling with Earliness and Tardiness Penalties.
Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 39, (1992), 229-245.

O. L. Mangasarian: Convergence of Iterates of a Splitting Algorithm for Linear Complementarity Problems.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 917, 1990. SIAM Journal on Optimization 1, 1991, 114-122.

O. L. Mangasarian, R. Setiono and W. H. Wolberg: Pattern recognition via linear programming :theory and application to medical diagnosis.
Computer Sciences Technical Report 878, 1989."Large-Scale Numerical Optimization", T. F. Coleman and Y. Li, editors, SIAM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1990, 22-31.