Hemiequilibrium-like problems

In this paper, we introduce and consider a new class of equilibrium problems, known as hemiequilibrium-like problems. This new class includes hemiequilibrium, equilibrium-like problems and several classes of variational inequalities as special cases. A number of iterative methods for solving hemiequilibrium-like problems are suggested and analyzed by using the auxiliary principle technique. We also study the convergence analysis of these iterative methods under some mild conditions. The results obtained in this paper can be considered as a novel application of the auxiliary principle technique.