Financial executive pay is a convex function of profits if recipients get a greater increment in pay when returns are high as opposed to moderate, compared with when returns are moderate as opposed to ...

The Sphere function has d local minima except for the global one. It is continuous, convex and unimodal. The plot shows its two-dimensional form. The function is usually evaluated on the hypercube x i ...

The goal of this course is to investigate in-depth and to develop expert knowledge in the theory and algorithms for convex optimization. This course will provide a rigorous introduction to the rich ...

The Rotated Hyper-Ellipsoid function is continuous, convex and unimodal. It is an extension of the Axis Parallel Hyper-Ellipsoid function, also referred to as the Sum Squares function. The plot shows ...