Bound Constrained Optimization and Optimal Control

The project is supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Dept of Education GAANN fellowship program.

The group at NCSU working on these topics is

• Tim Kelley
• Ph. D. Students
  • Karen Dillard (kdillard1@nc.rr.com)
  • Jill Reese (jpreese@unity.ncsu.edu)
• Undergraduate RA
  • Vincent Bannister (vebannis@eos.ncsu.edu)
• Alumni
  • Paul Gilmore (paul.gilmore@tek.com)
  • Tony Choi (tonyc@renewal-iis.com)
  • Joerg Gablonsky (gablonj@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com)
  • Dan Finkel (dfinkel@ll.mit.edu)
  • Owen Eslinger (owen@brahma.ticam.utexas.edu)
  • Alton Patrick (hapatrick@acm.org)

Publications

• Pseudo-Transient Continuation and Optimization
  C. T. Kelley, L. Qi, L-Z. Liao, J. P. Reese, and C. Winton, March 2006

• K. R. Kavanagh, C. T. Kelley, C. T. Miller, C. E. Kees, Robert W. Darwin, J. P. Reese, M. W. Farthing, and Mark S. C. Reed, Solution of a Well-Field Design Problem with Implicit Filtering
  Optimization and Engineering, (5), 2004, 207-234.

• C. T. Kelley and E. W. Sachs,
  Truncated Newton Methods for Optimization with Inaccurate Functions and Gradients
  JOTA, 116, 2003, 83-98.

• R. Carter, J. M. Gablonsky, A. Patrick, C. T. Kelley, and O. J. Eslinger, Algorithms for Noisy Problems in Gas Transmission Pipeline Optimization , Optimization and Engineering, (2), 2001, 139-157.
• J. M. Gablonsky and C. T. Kelley, A Locally-Biased form of the DIRECT Algorithm
  Journal of Global Optimization, (21), 2001, 27--37.
• T. D. Choi, O. J. Eslinger, C. T. Kelley, J. W. David, and M. Etheridge,
  Optimization of Automotive Valve Train Components with Implict Filtering,
  Optimization and Engineering. (1), 2000, 9-28.
• T. D. Choi and C. T. Kelley, Superlinear Convergence and Implicit Filtering
  SIAM J. on Optimization, (10), 2000, 1149-1162.
• C. T. Kelley and E. W. Sachs, A trust region method for parabolic boundary control problems SIAM J. Opt., (9), 1999, 1064-1081.
• T. D. Choi and C. T. Kelley, Estimates for the Nash-Sofer Preconditioner for the Reduced Hessian for Some Elliptic Variational Inequalities SIAM J. Opt., (9), 1999, 327-341.
• C. T. Kelley and E. W. Sachs, Solution of Optimal Control Problems by a Pointwise Projected Newton Method, SIAM J. Control Opt. (33), 1995, 477--493.
• C. T. Kelley, Identification of the Support of Nonsmoothness in Large Scale Optimization: State of the Art , W. W. Hager, D. W. Hearn, and P.M. Pardalos eds, pp. 192-205. Kluwer, Boston, 1994.
• C. T. Kelley and E. W. Sachs Multilevel algorithms for constrained compact fixed point problems , SIAM J. Sci. Comp. (15), 1994, pp. 645--667.
• M. Heinkenschloss, C. T. Kelley, and H. T. Tran, Fast Algorithms for Nonsmooth Compact Fixed Point Problems , SIAM J. Numer. Anal. (29), 1992, pp. 1769--1792.

CRSC Tech Reports

• CRSC-TR05-27 Developing Portfolios of Water Supply Transfers
  G. W. Characklis, B. R. Kirsch, J. Ramsey, K. E. M. Dillard, and C. T. Kelley, July 2005.

• CRSC-TR04-30: An Adaptive Restart Implementation of DIRECT
  D. E. Finkel and C. T. Kelley, August 2004

• CRSC-TR04-28: Convergence Analysis of the DIRECT Algorithm
  D. E. Finkel and C. T. Kelley July, 2004.