About contingent epiderivatives

In this paper we analyze some questions concerning the contingent epiderivative. When the ordering cone is not necessarily pointed we introduce the notion of family of contingent epiderivatives.We also investigate the relationship between the contingent derivative and the generalized epiderivative. Furthermore, we give existence theorems with respect to Daniell cones. As a particular case, we study set-valued maps that take values in Rn. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.