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# Second-order cone programming

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### Second-order cone programming

A second-order cone program (SOCP) is a convex optimization problem of the form

minimize \ f^T x \
subject to
\lVert A_i x + b_i \rVert_2 \leq c_i^T x + d_i,\quad i = 1,\dots,m
Fx = g \

where the problem parameters are f \in \mathbb{R}^n, \ A_i \in \mathbb{R}^{{n_i}\times n}, \ b_i \in \mathbb{R}^{n_i}, \ c_i \in \mathbb{R}^n, \ d_i \in \mathbb{R}, \ F \in \mathbb{R}^{p\times n}, and g \in \mathbb{R}^p. Here x\in\mathbb{R}^n is the optimization variable. [1] When A_i = 0 for i = 1,\dots,m, the SOCP reduces to a linear program. When c_i = 0 for i = 1,\dots,m, the SOCP is equivalent to a convex quadratically constrained linear program. Quadratically constrained quadratic programs can also be formulated as SOCPs by reformulating the objective function as a constraint. Semidefinite programming subsumes SOCPs as the SOCP constraints can be written as linear matrix inequalities (LMI) and can be reformulated as an instance of semi definite program. SOCPs can be solved with great efficiency by interior point methods.

## Contents

• Example: Stochastic linear programming 2
• Example: Stochastic second-order cone programming 3
• Solvers and scripting (programming) languages 4
• References 5

Consider a quadratic constraint of the form

x^T A^T A x + b^T x + c \leq 0.

This is equivalent to the SOC constraint

\left\| \begin{matrix} (1 + b^T x +c)/2\\ Ax \end{matrix} \right\|_2 \leq (1 - b^T x -c)/2.

## Example: Stochastic linear programming

Consider a stochastic linear program in inequality form

minimize \ c^T x \
subject to
P(a_i^Tx \leq b_i) \geq p, \quad i = 1,\dots,m

where the parameters a_i \ are independent Gaussian random vectors with mean \bar{a}_i and covariance \Sigma_i \ and p\geq0.5. This problem can be expressed as the SOCP

minimize \ c^T x \
subject to
\bar{a}_i^T x + \Phi^{-1}(p) \lVert \Sigma_i^{1/2} x \rVert_2 \leq b_i , \quad i = 1,\dots,m

where \Phi^{-1} \ is the inverse normal cumulative distribution function.[1]

## Example: Stochastic second-order cone programming

We refer to second-order cone programs as deterministic second-order cone programs since data deﬁning them are deterministic. Stochastic second-order cone programs[2] is a class of optimization problems that deﬁned to handle uncertainty in data deﬁning deterministic second-order cone programs.

## Solvers and scripting (programming) languages

AMPL commercial An algebraic modeling language with SOCP support
CPLEX commercial
ECOS GPL v3 SOCP solver for embedded applications
Gurobi commercial parallel SOCP barrier algorithm
JOptimizer Apache License Java library for convex optimization (open source)
MOSEK commercial
OpenOpt BSD universal cross-platform numerical optimization framework, see its SOCP page and other problems involved. Uses NumPy arrays and SciPy sparse matrices.
SDPT3 GPL v2 Matlab package with primal–dual interior point methods[3][2][4][5][6]
Xpress commercial from 7.6 release

## References

1. ^ a b Boyd, Stephen; Vandenberghe, Lieven (2004). Convex Optimization (pdf). Cambridge University Press.
2. ^ a b Alzalg, Baha (2012). "Stochastic second-order cone programming: Application models". Applied Mathematical Modeling 36 (10): 5122–5134.
3. ^ Toh, K.C.; M.J. Todd; R.H. Tutuncu (1999). "SDPT3 - a Matlab software package for semidefinite programming". Optimization Methods andSoftware 11: 545–581.
4. ^ Tutuncu, R.H.; K.C. Toh; M.J. Todd (2003). "Solving semidefinite-quadratic-linear programs using SDPT3". Mathematical Programming. B 95: 189–217.
5. ^ |SeDuMi||GPL v3||Matlab package with primal–dual interior point methods
6. ^ Sturm, Jos F. (1999). "Using SeDuMi 1.02, a MATLAB toolbox for optimization over symmetric cones". Optimization Methods and Software. 11-12: 625–653.
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