All Areas Submissions - March 2006

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
Benchmark of Some Nonsmooth Optimization Solvers for Computing Nonconvex Proximal Points
Warren Hare, Claudia Sagastizabal

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Representing the space of linear programs as a Grassmannian
Gongyun Zhao

Integer Programming
A robust approach to the chance-constrained knapsack problem
Olivier Klopfenstein, Dritan Nace

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
New Solution Approaches to the General Single Machine Earliness-Tardiness Problem
Hoksung Yau, Yunpeng Pan, Leyuan Shi

Global Optimization
Efficiently packing unequal disks in a circle: a computational approach which exploits the continuous and combinatorial structure of the problem
B. Addis, M. Locatelli, F. Schoen

Global Optimization
Global optimization by continuous GRASP
Michael J. Hirsch, Claudio N. Meneses, Panos M. Pardalos, Mauricio G. C. Resende

Combinatorial Optimization
On the p-median polytope of a special class of graphs
Mourad Baiou, Francisco Barahona

Combinatorial Optimization
The p-median polytope of restricted Y-graphs
Mourad Baiou, Francisco Barahona

Applications — Science and Engineering
Survivable Energy Markets
Gabriella Muratore

Robust Optimization
On the Quality of a Semidefinite Programming Bound for Sparse Principal Component Analysis
Laurent El Ghaoui

Combinatorial Optimization
On forests, stable sets and polyhedras associated with clique partitions
Denis Cornaz

Global Optimization
A Particle Swarm Pattern Search Method for Bound Constrained Nonlinear Optimization
A. Ismael F. Vaz, Luís N. Vicente

Combinatorial Optimization
Nonserial dynamic programming and local decomposition algorithms in discrete programming
Arnold Neumaier, Oleg Shcherbina

Applications — Science and Engineering
A unified approach for inversion problems in intensity-modulated radiation therapy
Yair Censor, Thomas Bortfeld, Benjamin Martin, Alexei Trofimov

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
OSiL: An Instance Language for Optimization
Robert Fourer, Jun Ma, Kipp Martin

Integer Programming
Packing and Partitioning Orbitopes
Volker Kaibel, Marc E. Pfetsch

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Towards nonsymmetric conic optimization
Yurii Nesterov