Reformulation: nonsmooth, piecewise smooth, semismooth and smoothing methods. Session in the 16th international symposium on Mathematical programming (ismp97) held at Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland, August 24--29, 1997 (Q1280198)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Andreani, Roberto; Martínez, José Mario}, Solving complementarity problems by means of a new smooth constrained nonlinear solver, 1-24 [Zbl 0927.65080] \textit{Burachik, Regina S.; Sagastizábal, Claudia A.; Svaiter, B. F.}, \(\varepsilon\)-enlargements of maximal monotone operators: Theory and applications, 25-43 [Zbl 0928.65068] \textit{Burke, James V.; Xu, Song}, A non-interior predictor-corrector path-following method for LCP, 45-63 [Zbl 0927.65081] \textit{Chen, Xiaojun; Matsunaga, Nami; Yamamoto, Tetsuro}, Smoothing Newton methods for nonsmooth Dirichlet problems, 65-79 [Zbl 0932.65112] \textit{Christensen, Peter W.; Pang, Jong-Shi}, Frictional contact algorithms based on semismooth Newton methods, 81-116 [Zbl 0937.74078] \textit{Deng, Sien}, Well-posed problems and error bounds in optimization, 117-126 [Zbl 0948.90130] \textit{Dirkse, Steven P.; Ferris, Michael C.}, Modeling and solution environments for MPEC: GAMS \(\&\) MATLAB, 127-147 [Zbl 0927.65082] \textit{Fischer, Andreas}, Merit functions and stability for complementarity problems, 149-159 [Zbl 0948.90134] \textit{Gao, David Yang}, Minimax and triality theory in nonsmooth variational problems, 161-179 [Zbl 0932.49021] \textit{Jiang, Houyuan; Ralph, Daniel}, Global and local superlinear convergence analysis of Newton-type methods for semismooth equations with smooth least squares, 181-209 [Zbl 0928.65060] \textit{Kanzow, Christian; Zupke, Martin}, Inexact trust-region methods for nonlinear complementarity problems, 211-233 [Zbl 0927.65083] \textit{Li, Wu; Swetits, John}, Regularized Newton methods for minimization of convex quadratic splines with singular hessians, 235-257 [Zbl 0927.65073] \textit{Mangasarian, Olvi L.}, Regularized linear programs with equilibrium constraints, 259-268 [Zbl 0927.65071] \textit{Marcotte, Patrice}, Reformulations of a bicriterion equilibrium model, 269-291 [Zbl 0998.91033] \textit{Peng, Ji-Ming}, A smoothing function and its applications, 293-316 [Zbl 0948.90135] \textit{Qian, Maijian; Burke, James V.}, On the local super-linear convergence of a matrix secant implementation of the variable metric proximal point algorithm for monotone operators, 317-334 [Zbl 0930.65072] \textit{Rubinov, Alexander M.; Glover, Bevil}, Reformulation of a problem of economic equilibrium, 335-354 [Zbl 0958.91039] \textit{Solodov, Michael V.; Svaiter, Benav F.}, A globally convergent inexact Newton method for systems of monotone equations, 355-369 [Zbl 0928.65059] \textit{Sznajder, Roman; Gowda, M. Seetharama}, On the limiting behavir of the trajectory of regularized solutions of a \(P_0\)-complementarity problem, 371-379 [Zbl 0968.90064] \textit{Tseng, Paul}, Analysis of a non-interior continuation method based on Chen-Mangasarian smoothing functions for complementarity problems, 381-404 [Zbl 0928.65078] \textit{Yamashita, Nobuo; Fukushima, Masao}, A new merit function and a descent method for semidefinite complementarity problems, 405-420 [Zbl 0969.90087] \textit{Zhou, Guanglu; Sun, Defeng; Qi, Liqun}, Numerical experiments for a class of squared smoothing Newton methods for box constrained variational inequality problems, 421-441 [Zbl 0928.65080]