ITERATIVE METHODS FOR LARGE-SCALE CONVEX QUADRATIC AND CONCAVE PROGRAMS

The linearly constrained quadratic programming(QP) considered is : $$ min f(x) = c^T x + \frac{1}{2}x^T Hx $$ $$ (1) subject to A^T x \geq b,$$ where $c,x \in R^n, b \in R^m, H \in R^{n \times n)}$, symmetric, and $A \in R^{n \times n}$. If there are bounds on x, these are included in the matrix $A^T$. The Hessian matrix H may be positive definite or negative semi-difinite. For large problems H and the constraint matrix A are assumed to be sparse.