All Areas Submissions - January 2014

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Generalized Gauss Inequalities via Semidefinite Programming
Bart P.G. Van Parys, Paul J. Goulart, Daniel Kuhn

Combinatorial Optimization
Worst-Case Performance Analysis of Some Approximation Algorithms for Minimizing Makespan and Flow-Time
Peruvemba Sundaram Ravi, Levent Tuncel, Michael Huang

Global Optimization
A refined error analysis for fixed-degree polynomial optimization over the simplex
Zhao Sun

Network Optimization
Incremental Network Design with Maximum Flows
Thomas Kalinowski, Dmytro Matsypura, Martin W.P. Savelsbergh

Network Optimization
The cut property under demand uncertainty
Sara Mattia

Nonlinear Optimization
New active set identification for general constrained optimization and minimax problems
Jin-bao Jian, Yi Liu

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Iterative Reweighted Singular Value Minimization Methods for $l_p$ Regularized Unconstrained Matrix Minimization
Zhaosong Lu, Yong Zhang

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A strongly polynomial algorithm for linear optimization problems having 0-1 optimal solutions
Sergei Chubanov

Other Topics
A Robust Additive Multiattribute Preference Model using a Nonparametric Shape-Preserving Perturbation
Jian Hu

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Lagrangian-Conic Relaxations, Part I: A Unified Framework and Its Applications to Quadratic Optimization Problems
Naohiko Arima, Sunyoung Kim, Masakazu Kojima, Kim-Chuan Toh

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Models and Solution Techniques for Production Planning Problems with Increasing Byproducts
Srikrishna Sridhar, Jeff Linderoth, James Luedtke

Robust Optimization
Adjustable robust optimization with decision rules based on inexact revealed data
Frans de Ruiter, Aharon Ben-Tal, Ruud Brekelmans, Dick den Hertog

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Lagrangian-Conic Relaxations, Part II: Applications to Polynomial Optimization Problems
Naohiko Arima, Sunyoung Kim, Masakazu Kojima, Kim-Chuan Toh

Stochastic Programming
A Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Programming Approach to Integrated Staffing and Scheduling with Application to Nurse Management
Kibaek Kim, Sanjay Mehrotra

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Spectral Operators of Matrices
Chao Ding, Defeng Sun, Jie Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Optimal Control of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles with Market Impact and Risk Attitude
Lai Wei, Yongpei Guan

Integer Programming
Cutting Planes for RLT Relaxations of Mixed 0-1 Polynomial Programs
Franklin Djeumou Fomeni, Konstantinos Kaparis, Adam N Letchford

Other Topics
Characterization of proper optimal elements with variable ordering structures
Gabriele Eichfelder, Tobias Gerlach

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
An improved and simplified full-Newton step O(n) infeasible interior-point method for Linear Optimization
Kees Roos

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
From seven to eleven: completely positive matrices with high cp-rank
Immanuel Bomze, Werner Schachinger, Reinhard Ullrich

Integer Programming
Subset Selection by Mallows' Cp: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach
Ryuhei Miyashiro, Yuichi Takano

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Extreme point inequalities and geometry of the rank sparsity ball
D. Drusvyatskiy, S.A. Vavasis, H. Wolkowicz

Combinatorial Optimization
Eigenvalue, Quadratic Programming, and Semidefinite Programming Bounds for Vertex Separators
Ting Kei Pong, Hao Sun, Ningchuan Wang, Henry Wolkowicz

Applications — Science and Engineering
Alternating direction method of multipliers for sparse zero-variance discriminant analysis and principal component analysis
Brendan Ames, Mingyi Hong

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Constraint Programming for LNG Ship Scheduling and Inventory Management
Vikas Goel, Marla Slusky, Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Kevin Furman, Yufen Shao

Robust Optimization
Confidence Levels for CVaR Risk Measures and Minimax Limits
Edward Anderson, Huifu Xu, Dali Zhang

Nonlinear Optimization
On QPCCs, QCQPs and Completely Positive Programs
Lijie Bai, John E Mitchell, Jong-Shi Pang

Stochastic Programming
Mitigating Uncertainty via Compromise Decisions in Two-stage Stochastic Linear Programming
Suvrajeet Sen, Yifan Liu

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Block Successive Upper Bound Minimization Method of Multipliers for Linearly Constrained Convex Optimization
Mingyi Hong, Tsung-Hui Chang, Xiangfeng Wang, Meisam Razaviyayn, Shiqian Ma, Zhi-Quan Luo

Other Topics
Distributed Optimization Methods for Large Scale Optimal Control
Attila Kozma

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Alternating projections and coupling slope
D. Drusvyatskiy, A.D. Ioffe, A.S. Lewis

Stochastic Programming
A Stochastic Quasi-Newton Method for Large-Scale Optimization
Richard Byrd, Samantha Hansen, Jorge Nocedal, Yoram Singer

Nonlinear Optimization
Improving direct search algorithms by multilevel optimization techniques
Emanuele Frandi, Alessandra Papini

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Note on Lerner Index, Cross-Elasticity and Revenue Optimization Invariants
Alexander Kushkuley, Su-Ming Wu