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Characterizing an optimal input in perturbed convex programming

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When every feasible stable perturbation of data results in a non-improvement of the optimal value function, then we talk about an ‘optimal input’ or an ‘optimal selection of data”. In this paper we describe such data for convex programs using perturbed saddle points.

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Research partly supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada and le Ministère de l'Education du Québec (F.C.A.C.).

Presented in part at the Third Symposium on Mathematical Programming with Data Perturbations, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (May 21–22, 1981).

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Zlobec, S. Characterizing an optimal input in perturbed convex programming. Mathematical Programming 25, 109–121 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02591721

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