Ismael Vaz Publications

::A.I.F. Vaz. Aplicações, métodos e ferramentas para programação semi-infinita não linear. Ph.D. Thesis, Minho University, February 2003.

:: Selected publications:

:: Rosa Esperanza González-Mahecha, André F.P. Lucena, Alexandre Szklo, Paula Ferreira, and A. I. F. Vaz, Optimization model for evaluating on-site renewable technologies with storage in zero/nearly zero energy buildings, Energy & Buildings, 172, 505-516, 2018. DOI:10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.04.027.

:: J. Fliege, A. I. F. Vaz, and L. N. Vicente, Complexity of gradient descent for multiobjective optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, 0, 1-11, 2018. DOI:10.1080/10556788.2018.1510928.

:: Sérgio Pereira, A. I. F. Vaz, and L. N. Vicente, On the optimal object orientation in additive manufacturing, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 98, 1685-1694, 2018. DOI:10.1007/s00170-018-2218-0.

:: J. Fliege and A. I. F. Vaz, A method for constrained multiobjective optimization based on SQP techniques, SIAM J. Optim., 26(4), 2091–2119, 2016. DOI:10.1137/15M1016424. See here for the implementation.

:: H. A. Le Thi, Mohand Ouanes, and A. I. F. Vaz, A branch and bound approach for convex semi-infinite programming, submitted. See here for the implementation.

:: Sérgio Pereira, Paula Ferreira, A.I.F. Vaz, Short-term electricity planning with increase wind capacity, Energy, vol 69, pp 12–22, DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2014.01.037.

:: H. A. Le Thi, Huynh Van Ngai, Pham Dinh Tao, A. I. F. Vaz, and L. N. Vicente, Globally Convergent DC Trust-Region Methods, Journal of Global Optimization, vol 59, pp 209-225, DOI: 10.1007/s10898-014-0170-6.

:: João M. Fernandes, A. I. F. Vaz and L. N. Vicente, Modeling binary stars: age, helium abundance, and convection parameters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 425 (2012), pp 3104-3111, DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21516.x. See also here.

:: H. A. Le Thi, A. I. F. Vaz and L. N. Vicente, Optimizing radial basis functions by d.c. programming and its use in direct search for global derivative-free optimization, TOP, 20(2012) 190-214, DOI: 10.1007/s11750-011-0193-9.

:: A. L. Custódio, J. F. A. Madeira, A. I. F. Vaz and L. N. Vicente, Direct Multisearch for Multiobjective Optimization, SIAM J. Optim., 21 (2011), 1109-1140, DOI:10.1137/10079731X. See also here. (there is an errata for the published version)

:: João M. Fernandes, A. I. F. Vaz and L. N. Vicente, Modeling nearby FGK Population I stars: A new form of estimating stellar parameters using an optimization approach, Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 532, 2011, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/200811182. See also here.

:: A. I. F. Vaz and Eugénio C. Ferreira, Air pollution control with semi-infinite programming, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 33 (2009) 1957-1969.

:: A. I. F. Vaz and L. N. Vicente, PSwarm: A hybrid solver for linearly constrained global derivative-free optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, 24 (2009) 669-685.

:: A. I. F. Vaz and L. N. Vicente, A particle swarm pattern search method for bound constrained global optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, 39 (2007) 197-219.

:: A.I.F. Vaz, Edite M.G.P. Fernandes and M. Paula S.F. Gomes. Robot Trajectory planning with semi-infinite programming. EJOR 53(3), 2004, pp. 607-617.

:: A.I.F. Vaz, Edite M.G.P. Fernandes and M. Paula S.F. Gomes. SIPAMPL: Semi-Infinite Programming with AMPL. ACM Transactions On Mathematical Software 30(1), March 2004, pp. 47-61.

:: A.I.F. Vaz, Edite M.G.P. Fernandes and M. Paula S.F. Gomes. A quasi-Newton interior point method for semi-infinite programming. Optimization Methods and Software 18(6), December 2003, pp. 673-687.

:: A.I.F. Vaz, Edite M.G.P. Fernandes and M. Paula S.F. Gomes. A Sequential quadratic method with a dual parameterization approach to nonlinear semi-infinite programming. Top, 11 (1), 2003, pp. 109-130.