Wednesday, July 12

MS39
Aspects of High-Level Problem Representations for Optimization

10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Rio Mar 5
Sponsored by SIAM Activity Group on Optimization

This session considers several ways of dealing with high-level problem representations, i.e., representations that focus on essential problem details while hiding implementation details. Often several implementations are possible. Representations that hide implementation details permit the people who formulate problems to focus on correct formulations and facilitate experimenting with alternative implementations. The speakers in this session will discuss several kinds of high-level representations, often in the context of optimization algorithms, such as representations for linear-algebraic operators, functional information about PDE solutions, "logical' optimization constraints, and nonlinear expressions.

10:30-10:55 An Object Framework for High-Level Representation of Objective Functions and Constraints in PDE-Based Optimization

Kevin R. Long, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; Paul T. Boggs, Organizer; Leslea J. Lehoucq and William E. Mason, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

11:00-11:25 A Flexible Implementation of an SQP Algorithm

Paul T. Boggs, Organizer; and Kevin R. Long, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

11:30-11:55 Extending Algebraic Modeling Languages for Combinatorial Optimization via Constraint Programming

Robert Fourer, Northwestern University, USA; and David M. Gay, Organizer

12:00-12:25 Toward Convenient yet Efficient Handling of Nonlinear Expressions

David M. Gay, Organizer