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Teaching:
- MATH 4481,
Introduction to Optimization, Fall 2008.
- MATH 2107, Calculus 1, Fall
2008.
- MATH 2108, Calculus 2, Spring
2008.
- MATH 4473: Linear
Programming, Fall
2007.
- MATH 3303: Linear Algebra 2, Fall 2007.
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Research interest:
Numerical optimization algorithms for solving
unconstrained, nonlinear least-squares and large-scale problems.
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Recent publications:
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M. Al-Baali and H. Khalfan, “An overview of some practical quasi-Newton methods
for unconstrained optimization,” SQUJS (Sultan Qaboos
Univ. Journal for Science), Vol. 12 (2007), pp. 199.
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M. Al-Baali and H. Khalfan, “A wide interval for efficient self-scaling
quasi-Newton algorithms,” OMS (Optimization
Methods and Software), Vol. 20 (2005), pp. 679-691.
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M. Al-Baali, A. Fuduli and R. Musmanno, “On the
performance of switching BFGS/SR1 algorithms for unconstrained optimization,” OMS,
Vol. 19 (2004), pp. 153-164.
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M. Al-Baali, “Quasi-Newton algorithms for large-scale nonlinear least-squares,”
in High Performance Algorithms and Software for Nonlinear Optimization, pp.
1-21, Eds. G. Di Pillo and A. Murli, Editors, Kluwer Academic, 2003.
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M. Al-Baali, “Extra-updates criterion for the limited memory BFGS algorithm for
large scale nonlinear optimization,” Journal
of Complexity, Vol. 18 (2002), pp.
557-572.
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M. Al-Baali, “On the
behaviour of a combined extra-updating self-scaling
BFGS method,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 134
(2001), pp. 269-281.
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M. Al-Baali, D. Conforti and R. Musmanno,
“Computational experiments with scaled initial Hessian approximation for the Broyden family methods,” Optimization: Journal of
Mathematical Programming and Operations Research, Vol. 48 (2000), pp. 375-389.
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M. Al-Baali, “Extra
updates for the BFGS method,” OMS, Vol. 13 (2000), pp. 159-179.
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Submitted papers:
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M. Al-Baali and H. Khalfan, A Combined Class of Slef-Scaling
and Modified Quasi-Newton Methods.
