1. Guest Editorial

   • Liqun Qi

   Editorial Board Pages: 7 - 9

2. Photo, Biography and Selected Publications of Professor Elijah Polak

   Biography Pages: 11 - 16

3. A Simple Primal-Dual Feasible Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Programming with Monotone Descent

   • Sasan Bakhtiari
   • André L. Tits

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 38

4. Complementarity Functions and Numerical Experiments on Some Smoothing Newton Methods for Second-Order-Cone Complementarity Problems

   • X.D. Chen
   • D. Sun
   • J. Sun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 56

5. An Exact Augmented Lagrangian Function for Nonlinear Programming with Two-Sided Constraints

   • Gianni Di Pillo
   • Giampaolo Liuzzi
   • Laura Palagi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 83

6. A Truncated Newton Method for the Solution of Large-Scale Inequality Constrained Minimization Problems

   • Francisco Facchinei
   • Giampaolo Liuzzi
   • Stefano Lucidi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 122

7. Extension of Quasi-Newton Methods to Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints

   • Houyuan Jiang
   • Daniel Ralph

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 150

8. Survival-Time Classification of Breast Cancer Patients

   • Y.-J. Lee
   • O.L. Mangasarian
   • W.H. Wolberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 166

9. Optimal Control of Constrained Piecewise Affine Discrete-Time Systems

   • D. Q. Mayne
   • S. Raković

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 191

10. Sequential Linear-Quadratic Method for Differential Games with Air Combat Applications

    • H. Mukai
    • A. Tanikawa
    • Y. Sawada

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 222

11. A Strongly Semismooth Integral Function and Its Application

    • Liqun Qi
    • Hongxia Yin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 246

12. A Property of Piecewise Smooth Functions

    • R.T. Rockafellar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 250

13. A Unified Gradient Flow Approach to Constrained Nonlinear Optimization Problems

    • S. Wang
    • X.Q. Yang
    • K.L. Teo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 268

14. Lipschitz Continuity of inf-Projections

    • Roger J.-B. Wets

    OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 282

15. Solution Methodologies for the Smallest Enclosing Circle Problem

    • Sheng Xu
    • Robert M. Freund
    • Jie Sun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 292

16. Partially Strictly Monotone and Nonlinear Penalty Functions for Constrained Mathematical Programs

    • X.Q. Yang
    • X.X. Huang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 311