• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.657-661
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• 2010

We study a singular function which we call a generalized cylinder convex(concave) function induced from different generalized dyadic expansion systems on the unit interval. We show that the generalized cylinder convex(concave)function is a singular function and the length of its graph is 2. Using a local dimension set in the unit interval, we give some characterization of the distribution set using its derivative, which leads to that this singular function is nowhere differentiable in the sense of topological magnitude.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.259-266
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• 2011

We present a new dual sequential approximate optimization (SAO) algorithm called SD-TDQAO (sequential dual two-point diagonal quadratic approximate optimization). This algorithm solves engineering optimization problems with a nonlinear objective and nonlinear inequality constraints. The two-point diagonal quadratic approximation (TDQA) was originally non-convex and inseparable quadratic approximation in the primal design variable space. To use the dual method, SD-TDQAO uses diagonal quadratic explicit separable approximation; this can easily ensure convexity and separability. An important feature is that the second-derivative terms of the quadratic approximation are approximated by TDQA, which uses only information on the function and the derivative values at two consecutive iteration points. The algorithm will be illustrated using mathematical and topological test problems, and its performance will be compared with that of the MMA algorithm.