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The proximal method of multipliers was proposed by Rockafellar [Augmented Lagrangians and applications of the proximal point algorithm in convex programming. Math Oper Res. 1976;1:97–116] for solving convex programming and it is a kind of proximal point method applied to convex programming. In this paper, we apply this method for solving nonlinear semidefinite programming problems, in which subproblems have better properties than those from the augmented Lagrange method. We prove that, under the linear independence constraint qualification and the strong second-order sufficiency optimality condition, the rate of convergence of the proximal method of multipliers, for a nonlinear semidefinite programming problem, is linear and the ratio constant is proportional to 1/c, where c is the penalty parameter that exceeds a threshold c ∗ > 0. Moreover, the rate of convergence of the proximal method of multipliers is superlinear when the parameter c increases to + ∞. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the reverse 1-center problem on a weighted tree. Here, a facility has already been located in a predetermined node of the tree network and we want to improve the 1-center objective value at that node as efficiently as possible within a given budget. For solving this problem under uniform linear cost functions, we develop a combinatorial algorithm with running time, whereis the number of vertices of the tree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a new simultaneous iterative algorithm for solving the split common fixed point problem of directed operators. Inspired by the idea of cyclic iterative algorithm, we also introduce two iterative algorithms which combine the process of cyclic and simultaneous together. Under mild assumptions, we prove convergence of the proposed iterative sequences. As applications, we obtain several iteration schemes to solve the inverse problem of multiple-sets split feasibility problem. Numerical experiments are presented to confirm the efficiency of the proposed iterative algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]