Associate Professor of Computer Sciences and Industrial Engineering and member of the Center for the Mathematical SciencesPh.D., University of Cambridge, 1989
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 262-4281
Fax: (608) 262-9777
Email: ferris@cs.wisc.edu
I have been considering the use of parallel architectures for solving problems in nonlinear optimization. The use of graph partitioning techniques to determine underlying structure is being investigated as a tool for general purpose parallel optimization. Techniques for exploiting parallel machines directly from within modeling systems are also under consideration, with prototypes using the condor system.
Extensions of the complementarity framework are also being investigated, with emphasis on identifying and exploiting underlying model structure.
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