ANALYSIS OF COMPLEXITY OF PRIMAL-DUAL INTERIOR-POINT ALGORITHMS BASED ON A NEW KERNEL FUNCTION FOR LINEAR OPTIMIZATION.

Kernel functions play an important role in defining new search directions for primal-dual interior-point algorithm. In this paper, a new kernel function which its barrier term is integral type is proposed. We study the properties of the new kernel function, and give a primal-dual interior-point algorithm for solving linear optimization based on the new kernel function. Polynomial complexity of algorithm is analyzed. The iteration bounds both for large-update and for small-update methods are obtained, respectively. The iteration bound for small-update method is the best known complexity bound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]