Term of Award

Summer 2015

Degree Name

Master of Science in Mathematics (M.S.)

Document Type and Release Option

Thesis (restricted to Georgia Southern)

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Department

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Committee Chair

Goran Lesaja

Committee Member 1

Hua Wang

Committee Member 2

Yan Wu

Abstract

One of mathematical problems, that have many practical applications, is the well-known linear complementary problem (LCP) which consists of finding a certain vector that satisfy a set of linear inequalities and complementary equation. In this thesis, after introducing and analyzing a kernel-based primal-dual interior-point method (IPM) for solving LCP, we consider several, fairly general, eligible kernel functions. We show that the algorithm, with some of those kernel functions, has comparable complexity with the best complexity results obtained in the literature for these type of methods. Three basic implementations of the algorithm in MATLAB were used to conduct a series of numerical tests for different kernel functions, showing promising performance.

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