Article ID: | iaor2004724 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 43 |
End Page Number: | 62 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1997 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Auslender A., Cominetti R., Haddou M. |
We consider a wide class of penalty and barrier methods for convex programming which includes a number of specific functions proposed in the literature. We provide a systematic way to generate penalty and barrier functions in this class, and we analyze the existence of primal and dual optimal paths generated by these penalty methods, as well as their convergence to the primal and dual optimal sets. For linear programming we prove that these optimal paths converge to single points.