Erkan, Ali2016-01-082016-01-081997http://hdl.handle.net/11693/17867Ankara : Department of Industrial Engineering and Institute of Engineering and Sciences, Bilkent Univ., 1997.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1997.Includes bibliographical references.In this thesis, a continuation method for nonlinear complementarity problems via normal maps that is developed by Chen, Harker and Pinar [8] is implemented. This continuation method uses the smooth function to approximate the normal map reformulation of nonlinear complementarity problems. The algorithm is implemented and tested with two different plussmoothing functions namely interior point plus-smooth function and piecewise quadratic plus-smoothing function. These two functions are compared. Testing of the algorithm is made with several known problems.123 leavesEnglishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSmoothing MethodsNormal MapsContinuation MethodsComplementarityNonlinear ProgrammingQA264 .E75 1997Nonlinear programming.Smoothness of functions.Smoothing (Statistics)Thesis