All Areas Submissions - February 2007

Combinatorial Optimization
Polynomial time algorithms to approximate mixed volumes within a simply exponential factor
Leonid Gurvits

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Probabilistic Choice Models for Product Pricing using Reservation Prices
Romy Shioda, Levent Tuncel, B Hui

Stochastic Programming
A Stochastic Algorithm for Engineering Optimization Problems
Thong Nguyen Huu, Hao Tran Van

Combinatorial Optimization
Inverse Bottleneck Optimization Problems under Weighted Hamming Distance
Xiucui Guan, Jianzhong Zhang

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Mehrotra-type predictor-corrector algorithms revisited
Maziar Salahi, Tamas Terlaky

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The wireless network jamming problem
Clayton W. Commander, Panos M. Pardalos, Valeriy Ryabchenko, Stan Uryasev, Grigoriy Zrazhevsky

Stochastic Programming
MIP Reformulations of the Probabilistic Set Covering Problem
Anureet Saxena, Vineet Goyal, Miguel A. Lejeune

Stochastic Programming
An Exact Solution Approach for Portfolio Optimization Problems under Stochastic and Integer Constraints
Pierre Bonami, Miguel A. Lejeune

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Reverse-Engineering Banks' Financial Strength Ratings Using Logical Analysis of Data
Peter L. Hammer, Alexander Kogan, Miguel A. Lejeune

Applications — Science and Engineering
Measures with zeros in the inverse of their moment matrix
J.W. Helton, J.B. Lasserre, M. Putinar

Combinatorial Optimization
Simple Explicit Formula for Counting Lattice Points of Polyhedra
J.B. Lasserre, E.S. Zeron

Other Topics
Multi-objective branch-and-bound. Application to the bi-objective spanning tree problem.
Francis Sourd, Olivier Spanjaard

Nonlinear Optimization
Data Assimilation in Weather Forecasting: A Case Study in PDE-Constrained Optimization
M. Fisher, J. Nocedal, Y. Tremolet, S.J. Wright

Global Optimization
Computable representations for convex hulls of low-dimensional quadratic forms
Kurt Anstreicher, Samuel Burer

Global Optimization
Sufficient Conditions for a Real Polynomial to be a Sum of Squares
J.B. Lasserre

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Optimal data fitting: a moment approach
Dimitris Bertsimas, Xuan Vinh Doan, Jean Lasserre

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Multivariate exponential integral approximations: a moment approach
Dimitris Bertsimas, Xuan Vinh Doan, Jean Lasserre

Robust Optimization
Experiments in Robust Portfolio Optimization
Daniel Bienstock

Combinatorial Optimization
Improving Benders Decomposition Using a Genetic Algorithm
Chandra Poojari, John Beasley

Combinatorial Optimization
The operator $\Psi$ for the Chromatic Number of a Graph
Nebojsa Gvozdenovic, Monique Laurent

Combinatorial Optimization
Computing the $\psi$ and $\Psi$ semidefinite programming bounds for the chromatic number
Nebojsa Gvozdenovic, Monique Laurent

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Self-Concordant Barriers for Convex Approximations of Structured Convex Sets
Levent Tuncel, A. Nemirovski

Integer Programming
Lattice based extended formulations for integer linear equality systems
Karen Aardal, Laurence A. Wolsey

Nonlinear Optimization
A conic duality Frank--Wolfe type theorem via exact penalization in quadratic optimization
Werner Schachinger, Immanuel M. Bomze

Integer Programming
Solving the uncapacitated facility location problem with semi-Lagrangian relaxation
C. Beltran-Royo, J.-Ph. Vial, A. Alonso-Ayuso

Applications — Science and Engineering
Efficient Formulations for the Multi-Floor Facility Layout Problem with Elevators
Marc Goetschalckx, Takashi Irohara