Robert Mifflin

Operations Research $\bullet$ Nonsmooth Optimization

1. Functions with primal-dual gradient structure and U-Hessians (with C. Sagastizabal), in Nonlinear Optimization and Related Topics, (G. DiPillo and F. Giannessi, Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, (2000), 219-233.

2. Studies in algorithmic optimization: Festschrift in honor of William C. Davidon, (coeditor with K.A. Ariyawansa and J.L. Nazareth), Mathematical Programming 87 (2000).

3. On VU-theory for functions with primal-dual gradient structure (with C. Sagastizabal), SIAM Journal on Optimization, 11 (2000), 547-571.

4. Proximal points are on the fast track (with C. Sagastizabal), Journal of Convex Analysis, 9 (2002), 563-579.

5. On the relation between U-Hessians and second-order epi-derivations (with C. Sagastizabal), European Journal of Operations Research, 157 (2004), 28-38.

6. Primal-dual gradient structured function: second order results: links to epi-derivatives and partly smooth functions (with C. Sagastizabal), SIAM Journal on Optimization 12 (2003) 1174 - 1194.

7. VU-smoothness and proximal point results for some non-convex functions (with C. Sagastizabal), Optimization Methods and Software, 19 (2004), 463-478.

8. Relating U-Lagrangians to second-order epi-derivatives and proximal-tracks (with C. Sagastizabal), Journal of Convex Analysis, 12 (2005), 81-93.

9. A VU-algorithm for convex minimization (with C. Sagastizabal), Mathematical Programming 104 (2005), 583 - 608.