Research Reports from the Department of Operations

Authors

Daniel Solow

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

9-1-1978

Abstract

In the past decade various complementary pivoting algorithms have been developed to search for fixed points of certain functions and point to set maps. All these methods generate a sequence of simplexes which are "shrinking" to a point. This paper proposes a new method for shrinking the simplexes. It is shown that under certain conditions, the function whose fixed point is sought may be used to control this shrinking process. A computational method for implementing these ideas is also suggested and several examples are solved using this approach.

Keywords

Operations research, Fixed point theory, Mathematical optimization, Algorithms, Numerical analysis

Publication Title

Technical Memorandums from the Department of Operations, School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Issue

Technical memorandum no. 448

Rights

This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use

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