“…From (1), a vector x * is a solution of (2), if, and only if, x * it is a solution of the NCP. To solve (2) and thus, to solve the NCP, a nonsmooth algorithms type Newton [27], [29] and quasi-Newton [20], [21], among others [1], [6], [22], [26], [31] have been proposed. The natural merit function [24] Ψ : R n → R, defined by Ψ(x) = 1 2 ∥Φ(x)∥ 2 2 , is used in the globalization of these methods.…”