Article ID: | iaor20041831 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 96 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 87 |
End Page Number: | 101 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
Journal: | Mathematical Programming |
Authors: | Gonzaga C.C., Castillo R.A. |
Keywords: | penalty functions |
We consider first the differentiable nonlinear programming problem and study the asymptotic behavior of methods based on a family of penalty functions that approximate asymptotically the usually exact penalty function. We associate two parameters to these functions: one is used to control the slope and the other controls the deviation from the exact penalty. We propose a method that does not change the slope for feasible iterates and show that for problems satisfying the Mangasarian–Fromovitz constraint qualification all iterates will remain feasible after a finite number of iterations. The same results are obtained for non-smooth convex problems under a Slater qualification condition.