Semidefinite programming (SDP) has been one of the most exciting and
active research areas in optimization during the 1990's. It has
attracted researchers with very diverse backgrounds, including experts
convex programming, linear algebra, numerical optimization,
optimization, control theory, and statistics.
This tremendous research activity
was spurred by the discovery of important applications in
combinatorial optimization and control theory, the development
of efficient interior-point algorithms for solving
SDP problems, and the depth and elegance of the underlying
The HANDBOOK OF SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING offers an advanced and
broad overview of the current state of the field, It contains
nineteen chapters written by the leading experts on the subject.
The chapters are organized in three parts: Theory, Algorithms, and
Applications and Extensions.
Abdo Alfakih, Farid Alizadeh, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Dimitris Bertsimas,
Aharon Ben-Tal, Etienne de Klerk, Laurent El Ghaoui, Valerii Fedorov,
Michel Goemans, Christoph Helmberg, Florian Jarre, Serge Kruk,
Jon Lee, Zhiquan Luo, Renato Monteiro, Yurii Nesterov, Arkadi Nemirovski,
Francois Oustry, Gabor Pataki, Franz Rendl, Kees Roos, Romesh Saigal,
Katya Scheinberg, Stefan Schmieta, Jay Sethuraman, Alexander Shapiro,
Jos Sturm, Tam\'as Terlaky, Michael J. Todd, Levent Tuncel, Lieven Vandenberghe,
Fan Wang, Henry Wolkowicz, Yinyu Ye