The Karush--Kuhn--Tucker optimality conditions in an optimization problem with interval-valued objective function (Q2432881)

Using two different partial orderings in the space of real intervals two types of minima for optimization problems with interval-valued objective functions are formulated. Using the gradients of the functions bounding the images of an interval-valued function respectively applying the Hukuhara difference for intervals directly in the formula for the gradient of a function, two different gradients of an interval-valued function are defined. Relations between both types of derivatives are proved. Both derivatives are then used to formulate sufficient optimality conditions of Karush-Kuhn-Tucker type for the investigated problems.