An improved LQP-based method for solving nonlinear complementarity problems

Abstract

The well-known logarithmic-quadratic proximal (LQP)method has motivated a number of efficient numerical algorithms for solving nonlinear complementarity problems (NCPs). In this paper,we aim at improving one of them, i.e., the LQP-based interior prediction-correction method proposed in [He, Liao and Yuan, J. Comp. Math., 2006, 24(1): 33–44], via identifying more appropriate step-sizes in the correction steps. Preliminary numerical results for solving some NCPs arising in traffic equilibrium problems are reported to verify the theoretical assertions.

Keywords

Logarithmic-quadratic proximal method / nonlinear complementarity problems / prediction-correction / step-size

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