Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading aspects of semidefinite programming. Basic knowledge of graph theory and linear programming. Semidefinite programming in combinatorial optimization. Interior point methods in semidefinite programming with applications to combinatorial optimization article pdf available in siam journal on optimization 51 march 1998 with 197 reads. Integer linear programming and totally unimodular matrices. Popular special cases are linear programming and convex quadratic programming with convex quadratic constraints. In automatic control theory, sdps are used in the context of linear matrix.
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