Weber, Thomas A2016-01-262016-01-262016-01-262016https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/122721This paper provides expressions for the largest and smallest solution of a global optimization problem using an adjoint variable which represents the available one-sided improvements up to the interval “horizon”. Interpreting the problem in terms of optimal stopping or optimal starting, the resulting optimality conditions yield two-point boundary problems as in dynamic optimization problems.text::report