References
ALADIN-\alpha is descibed in ArXiv. Different versions of ALADIN are implemented in ALADIN-\alpha. Algorithmic details are described in the publications below.
[1] Engelmann, A., Jiang, Y., Benner, H., Ou, R., Houska, B., & Faulwasser, T. (2020). ALADIN-$\alpha $–An open-source MATLAB toolbox for distributed non-convex optimization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01866.
Algorithmic Details
[2] Houska, B., Frasch, J., & Diehl, M. (2016). An augmented Lagrangian based algorithm for distributed nonconvex optimization. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 26(2), 1101-1127.
[3] Engelmann, A., Jiang, Y., Houska, B., & Faulwasser, T. (2019). Decomposition of non-convex optimization via bi-level distributed ALADIN. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.11280.
Application to power systems
[4] Engelmann, A., Jiang, Y., Mühlpfordt, T., Houska, B., & Faulwasser, T. (2018). Toward distributed OPF using ALADIN. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 34(1), 584-594.
[5] Engelmann, A., Mühlpfordt, T., Jiang, Y., Houska, B., & Faulwasser, T. (2017). Distributed AC optimal power flow using ALADIN. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), 5536-5541.
[6] Du, X., Engelmann, A., Jiang, Y., Faulwasser, T., & Houska, B. (2019). Distributed State Estimation for AC Power Systems using Gauss-Newton ALADIN. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08956.
Application to Traffic engineering
Application to Optimal control