Title
Idempotent Interval Analysis and Optimization Problems
Abstract
Many problems in optimization theory are strongly nonlinear in the traditional sense but possess a hidden linear structure over suitable idempotent semirings. After an overview of `Idempotent Mathematics' with an emphasis on matrix theory, interval analysis over idempotent semirings is developed. The theory is applied to construction of exact interval solutions to the interval discrete stationary Bellman equation. Solution of an interval system is typically NP-hard in the traditional interval linear algebra; in the idempotent case it is polynomial. A generalization to the case of positive semirings is outlined.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1023/A:1011487725803
Reliable Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
discrete optimization,interval analysis,linear algebra,optimization problem,bellman equation,numerical analysis,matrix theory
Linear algebra,Discrete mathematics,Mathematical optimization,Polynomial,Algebra,Matrix (mathematics),Bellman equation,Idempotence,Interval arithmetic,Optimization problem,Idempotent matrix,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
5
1573-1340
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
1.42
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Grigori L. Litvinov1272.75
Andrei N. Sobolevskiī2191.42