| Article ID: | iaor1999819 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 79 |
| Issue: | 1/3 |
| Start Page Number: | 33 |
| End Page Number: | 53 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Programming |
| Authors: | Barvinok Alexander |
We discuss some consequences of the measure concentration phenomenon for optimization and computational problems. Topics include average case analysis in optimization, efficient approximate counting, computation of mixed discriminants and permanents, and semidefinite relaxation in quadratic programming.