All Areas Submissions - April 2007

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An Augmented Primal-Dual Method for Linear Conic Programs
Florian Jarre, Franz Rendl

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Efficiency of Maximum Likelihood Estimators under Different Censored Sampling Schemes for Rayleigh Distribution
Abd-Elfattah A.M., Amal S. Hassan, Ziedan D. M.

Nonlinear Optimization
A null-space primal-dual interior-point algorithm for nonlinear optimization with nice convergence properties
Xinwei Liu, Yaxiang Yuan

Combinatorial Optimization
Hyperplane Arrangements with Large Average Diameter
Antoine Deza, Feng Xie

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Optimizing Highway Transportation at the United States Postal Service
Anthony Pajunas, Edward J. Matto, Michael Trick, Luis F. Zuluaga

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Production design for plate products in the steel industry
Sanjeeb Dash, Jayant Kalagnanam, Chandra Reddy, Sang Hwa Song

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Accuracy Certificates for Computational Problems with Convex Structure
Arkadi Nemirovski, Shmuel Onn, Uriel Rothblum

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Polynomial interior point algorithms for general LCPs
Tibor Illés, Marianna Nagy, Tamás Terlaky

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A reduced duality gaps simplex algorithm for linear programming
Yan Zizong

Applications — Science and Engineering
Modeling and Simulation of Metabolic Networks for Estimation of Biomass Accumulation Parameters
Ugur Kaplan, Metin Turkay, Lorenz T. Biegler, Bulent Karasozen

Other Topics
Objective space for multiple objectives linear fractional programming
Said Tantawy, Ragabia Sallam

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Exploiting group symmetry in truss topology optimization
Yanqin Bai, Etienne De Klerk, Dmitrii V. Pasechnik, Renata Sotirov

Robust Optimization
Robust Inventory Management Using Tractable Replenishment Policies
Chuen-Teck See, Melvyn Sim

Stochastic Programming
On the solution of stochastic multiobjective integer linear programming problems with a parametric study
Oma M. Saad, Osama E. Imam

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Geometric Analysis of Renegar's Condition Number, and its interplay with Conic Curvature
Alexandre Belloni, Robert M. Freund

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Maximum Utility Product Pricing Models and Algorithms Based on Reservation Prices
Romy Shioda, Levent Tuncel, Tor Myklebust

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
Monotonicity of L\"{o}wner Operators and Its Applications to Symmetric Cone Complementarity Problems
Lingchen Kong, Levent Tuncel, Naihua Xiu

Nonlinear Optimization
Nonlinear programming without a penalty function or a filter
Nick Gould, Philippe Toint

Combinatorial Optimization
A Robust Branch-Cut-and-Price Algorithm for the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem
Artur Pessoa, Marcus Poggi de Aragão, Eduardo Uchoa

Nonlinear Optimization
A recursive trust-region method in infinity norm for bound-constrained nonlinear optimization
Serge Gratton, Mélodie Mouffe, Philippe Toint, Melissa Weber-Mendonca

Integer Programming
A Computational Study of Exact Knapsack Separation for the Generalized Assignment Problem
Pasqualle Avella, Boccia Maurizio, Igor Vasilyev

Combinatorial Optimization
Gap, cosum, and product properties of the Lov\'asz-Schrijver bound on the clique number
Immanuel Bomze, Florian Frommlet, Marco Locatelli

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Coordinate Gradient Descent Method for Nonsmooth Separable Minimization
Paul Tseng, Sangwoon Yun

Integer Programming
Integer Points in a Parameterised Polyhedron
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Gennady Shmonin

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Locating a semi-obnoxious facility with repelling polygonal regions
Jose Gordillo, Frank Plastria, Emilio Carrizosa