| Article ID: | iaor19972156 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 73 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 172 |
| End Page Number: | 174 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Gaudioso M., Monaco M.F. |
The authors show that, for strictly convex quadratic functions, the Newton direction may be obtained via an appropriate definition of a set of shifted supporting hyperplanes to the epigraph of the function. The result appears significant from the point of view of the numerical methods for both smooth and nonsmooth optimization.