On general hemiequilibrium problems ✩

In this paper, we introduce and analyze a new class of equilibrium problems known as general hemiequilibrium problems. It is shown that this class includes hemiequilibrium problems, hemivariational inequalities and complementarity problems as special cases. We use the auxiliary principle techniques to suggest some iterative-type methods for solving multivalued hemiequilibrium problems. We also analyze the convergence analysis of these new iterative methods under some mild conditions. As special cases, we obtain several new and known methods for solving variational inequalities and equilibrium problems. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.