@misc{Weiser2009, author = {Weiser, Martin}, title = {On goal-oriented adaptivity for elliptic optimal control problems}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-11192}, number = {09-08}, year = {2009}, abstract = {The paper proposes goal-oriented error estimation and mesh refinement for optimal control problems with elliptic PDE constraints using the value of the reduced cost functional as quantity of interest. Error representation, hierarchical error estimators, and greedy-style error indicators are derived and compared to their counterparts when using the all-at-once cost functional as quantity of interest. Finally, the efficiency of the error estimator and generated meshes are demonstrated on numerical examples.}, language = {en} } @misc{SchielaWeiser2009, author = {Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Barrier methods for a control problem from hyperthermia treatment planning}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-11567}, number = {09-36}, year = {2009}, abstract = {We consider an optimal control problem from hyperthermia treatment planning and its barrier regularization. We derive basic results, which lay the groundwork for the computation of optimal solutions via an interior point path-following method. Further, we report on a numerical implementation of such a method and its performance at an example problem.}, language = {en} } @misc{Weiser2008, author = {Weiser, Martin}, title = {Optimization and Identification in Regional Hyperthermia}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-10916}, number = {08-40}, year = {2008}, abstract = {Regional hyperthermia is a cancer therapy aiming at heating tumors using phased array applicators. This article provides an overview over current mathematical challenges of delivering individually optimal treatments. The focus is on therapy planning and identification of technical as well as physiological quantities from MR thermometry measurements.}, language = {en} } @misc{DeuflhardSchielaWeiser2011, author = {Deuflhard, Peter and Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Mathematical Cancer Therapy Planning in Deep Regional Hyperthermia}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-14204}, number = {11-39}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This paper surveys the required mathematics for a typical challenging problem from computational medicine, the cancer therapy planning in deep regional hyperthermia. In the course of many years of close cooperation with clinics, the medical problem gave rise to quite a number of subtle mathematical problems, part of which had been unsolved when the common project started. Efficiency of numerical algorithms, i.e. computational speed and monitored reliability, play a decisive role for the medical treatment. Off-the-shelf software had turned out to be not sufficient to meet the requirements of medicine. Rather, new mathematical theory as well as new numerical algorithms had to be developed. In order to make our algorithms useful in the clinical environment, new visualization software, a virtual lab, including 3D geometry processing of individual virtual patients had to be designed and implemented. Moreover, before the problems could be attacked by numerical algorithms, careful mathematical modelling had to be done. Finally, parameter identification and constrained optimization for the PDEs had to be newly analyzed and realized over the individual patient's geometry. Our new techniques had an impact on the specificity of the individual patients' treatment and on the construction of an improved hyperthermia applicator.}, language = {en} } @misc{LubkollSchielaWeiser2012, author = {Lubkoll, Lars and Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {An optimal control problem in polyconvex hyperelasticity}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-14745}, number = {12-08}, year = {2012}, abstract = {We consider a shape implant design problem that arises in the context of facial surgery. We introduce a reformulation as an optimal control problem, where the control acts as a boundary force. The state is modelled as a minimizer of a polyconvex hyperelastic energy functional. We show existence of optimal solutions and derive - on a formal level - first order optimality conditions. Finally, preliminary numerical results are presented.}, language = {en} } @misc{PruefertTroeltzschWeiser2004, author = {Pr{\"u}fert, Uwe and Tr{\"o}ltzsch, Fredi and Weiser, Martin}, title = {The convergence of an interior point method for an elliptic control problem with mixed control-state constraints}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-8223}, number = {04-47}, year = {2004}, abstract = {The paper addresses primal interior point method for state constrained PDE optimal control problems. By a Lavrentiev regularization, the state constraint is transformed to a mixed control-state constraint with bounded Lagrange multiplier. Existence and convergence of the central path are established, and linear convergence of a short-step pathfollowing method is shown. The behaviour of the regularizations are demonstrated by numerical examples.}, language = {en} } @misc{WeiserGaenzlerSchiela2004, author = {Weiser, Martin and G{\"a}nzler, Tobias and Schiela, Anton}, title = {A Control Reduced Primal Interior Point Method for PDE Constrained Optimization}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-8138}, number = {04-38}, year = {2004}, abstract = {A primal interior point method for control constrained optimal control problems with PDE constraints is considered. Pointwise elimination of the control leads to a homotopy in the remaining state and dual variables, which is addressed by a short step pathfollowing method. The algorithm is applied to the continuous, infinite dimensional problem, where discretization is performed only in the innermost loop when solving linear equations. The a priori elimination of the least regular control permits to obtain the required accuracy with comparable coarse meshes. Convergence of the method and discretization errors are studied, and the method is illustrated at two numerical examples.}, language = {en} } @article{GriesseWeiser2008, author = {Griesse, Roland and Weiser, Martin}, title = {On the Interplay Between Interior Point Approximation and Parametric Sensitivities in Optimal Control}, journal = {Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications}, pages = {771 -- 793}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{SchielaWeiser2008, author = {Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Superlinear convergence of the Control Reduced Interior Point Method for PDE Constrained Optimization}, volume = {39}, journal = {Computational Optimization and Applications}, number = {3}, pages = {369 -- 393}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{WeiserGaenzlerSchiela2008, author = {Weiser, Martin and G{\"a}nzler, Tobias and Schiela, Anton}, title = {A control reduced primal interior point method for a class of control constrained optimal control problems}, volume = {41}, journal = {Comput. Optim. Appl.}, number = {1}, pages = {127 -- 145}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Weiser2009, author = {Weiser, Martin}, title = {Optimization and Identification in Regional Hyperthermia}, volume = {30}, journal = {Int. J. Appl. Electromagn. and Mech.}, pages = {265 -- 275}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{PruefertTroeltzschWeiser2008, author = {Pr{\"u}fert, Uwe and Tr{\"o}ltzsch, Fredi and Weiser, Martin}, title = {The convergence of an interior point method for an elliptic control problem with mixed control-state constraints}, volume = {39}, journal = {Comput. Optim. Appl.}, number = {2}, pages = {183 -- 218}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @misc{SchielaWeiser2005, author = {Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Superlinear Convergence of the Control Reduced Interior Point Method for PDE Constrained Optimization}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-8490}, number = {05-15}, year = {2005}, abstract = {A thorough convergence analysis of the Control Reduced Interior Point Method in function space is performed. This recently proposed method is a primal interior point pathfollowing scheme with the special feature, that the control variable is eliminated from the optimality system. Apart from global linear convergence we show, that this method converges locally almost quadratically, if the optimal solution satisfies a function space analogue to a non-degeneracy condition. In numerical experiments we observe, that a prototype implementation of our method behaves in compliance with our theoretical results.}, language = {en} } @article{SchenkWaechterWeiser2008, author = {Schenk, O. and W{\"a}chter, Andreas and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Inertia Revealing Preconditioning For Large-Scale Nonconvex Constrained Optimization}, volume = {31}, journal = {SIAM J. Sci. Comp.}, number = {2}, pages = {939 -- 960}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @misc{LubkollSchielaWeiser2015, author = {Lubkoll, Lars and Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {An affine covariant composite step method for optimization with PDEs as equality constraints}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-53954}, year = {2015}, abstract = {We propose a composite step method, designed for equality constrained optimization with partial differential equations. Focus is laid on the construction of a globalization scheme, which is based on cubic regularization of the objective and an affine covariant damped Newton method for feasibility. We show finite termination of the inner loop and fast local convergence of the algorithm. We discuss preconditioning strategies for the iterative solution of the arising linear systems with projected conjugate gradient. Numerical results are shown for optimal control problems subject to a nonlinear heat equation and subject to nonlinear elastic equations arising from an implant design problem in craniofacial surgery.}, language = {en} } @misc{DeuflhardKornhuberSanderetal.2014, author = {Deuflhard, Peter and Kornhuber, Ralf and Sander, Oliver and Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Mathematics cures virtual patients}, volume = {1}, journal = {MATHEON-Mathematics for Key Technologies}, editor = {Deuflhard, Peter and Gr{\"o}tschel, Martin and H{\"o}mberg, Dietmar and Horst, Ulrich and Kramer, J{\"u}rg and Mehrmann, Volker and Polthier, Konrad and Schmidt, Frank and Sch{\"u}tte, Christof and Skutella, Martin and Sprekels, J{\"u}rgen}, publisher = {European Mathematical Society}, pages = {7 -- 25}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @article{Weiser2013, author = {Weiser, Martin}, title = {On goal-oriented adaptivity for elliptic optimal control problems}, volume = {28}, journal = {Opt. Meth. Softw.}, number = {13}, pages = {969 -- 992}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The paper proposes goal-oriented error estimation and mesh refinement for optimal control problems with elliptic PDE constraints using the value of the reduced cost functional as quantity of interest. Error representation, hierarchical error estimators, and greedy-style error indicators are derived and compared to their counterparts when using the all-at-once cost functional as quantity of interest. Finally, the efficiency of the error estimator and generated meshes are demonstrated on numerical examples.}, language = {en} } @article{DeuflhardSchielaWeiser2012, author = {Deuflhard, Peter and Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Mathematical Cancer Therapy Planning in Deep Regional Hyperthermia}, volume = {21}, journal = {Acta Numerica}, pages = {307 -- 378}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This paper surveys the required mathematics for a typical challenging problem from computational medicine, the cancer therapy planning in deep regional hyperthermia. In the course of many years of close cooperation with clinics, the medical problem gave rise to quite a number of subtle mathematical problems, part of which had been unsolved when the common project started. Efficiency of numerical algorithms, i.e. computational speed and monitored reliability, play a decisive role for the medical treatment. Off-the-shelf software had turned out to be not sufficient to meet the requirements of medicine. Rather, new mathematical theory as well as new numerical algorithms had to be developed. In order to make our algorithms useful in the clinical environment, new visualization software, a virtual lab, including 3D geometry processing of individual virtual patients had to be designed and implemented. Moreover, before the problems could be attacked by numerical algorithms, careful mathematical modelling had to be done. Finally, parameter identification and constrained optimization for the PDEs had to be newly analyzed and realized over the individual patient's geometry. Our new techniques had an impact on the specificity of the individual patients' treatment and on the construction of an improved hyperthermia applicator.}, language = {en} } @article{LubkollSchielaWeiser2014, author = {Lubkoll, Lars and Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {An optimal control problem in polyconvex hyperelasticity}, volume = {52}, journal = {SIAM J. Control Opt.}, number = {3}, doi = {10.1137/120876629}, pages = {1403 -- 1422}, year = {2014}, abstract = {We consider a shape implant design problem that arises in the context of facial surgery. We introduce a reformulation as an optimal control problem, where the control acts as a boundary force. The state is modelled as a minimizer of a polyconvex hyperelastic energy functional. We show existence of optimal solutions and derive - on a formal level - first order optimality conditions. Finally, preliminary numerical results are presented.}, language = {en} } @misc{SchielaWeiser2010, author = {Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {Barrier methods for a control problem from hyperthermia treatment planning}, journal = {Recent Advances in Optimization and its Applications in Engineering (Proceedings of 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization 2009)}, editor = {Diehl, M. and Glineur, F. and Jarlebring, E. and Michiels, W.}, publisher = {Springer}, pages = {419 -- 428}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We consider an optimal control problem from hyperthermia treatment planning and its barrier regularization. We derive basic results, which lay the groundwork for the computation of optimal solutions via an interior point path-following method. Further, we report on a numerical implementation of such a method and its performance at an example problem.}, language = {en} } @article{LubkollSchielaWeiser2017, author = {Lubkoll, Lars and Schiela, Anton and Weiser, Martin}, title = {An affine covariant composite step method for optimization with PDEs as equality constraints}, volume = {32}, journal = {Optimization Methods and Software}, number = {5}, doi = {10.1080/10556788.2016.1241783}, pages = {1132 -- 1161}, year = {2017}, abstract = {We propose a composite step method, designed for equality constrained optimization with partial differential equations. Focus is laid on the construction of a globalization scheme, which is based on cubic regularization of the objective and an affine covariant damped Newton method for feasibility. We show finite termination of the inner loop and fast local convergence of the algorithm. We discuss preconditioning strategies for the iterative solution of the arising linear systems with projected conjugate gradient. Numerical results are shown for optimal control problems subject to a nonlinear heat equation and subject to nonlinear elastic equations arising from an implant design problem in craniofacial surgery.}, language = {en} }