All Areas Submissions - April 2008

Robust Optimization
Cutting-Set Methods for Robust Convex Optimization with Pessimizing Oracles
Almir Mutapcic, Stephen Boyd

Nonlinear Optimization
Accelerated line-search and trust-region methods
P.-A. Absil, K. A. Gallivan

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Smoothing techniques for computing Nash equilibria of sequential games
Samid Hoda, Andrew Gilpin, Javier Pena

Combinatorial Optimization
A Hybrid Relax-and-Cut/Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for the Degree-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
Alexandre Salles da Cunha, Abilio Lucena

Stochastic Programming
Large Deviations of Vector-valued Martingales in 2-Smooth Normed Spaces
Anatoli Juditsky, Arkadi Nemirovski

Integer Programming
Maximizing a Class of Submodular Utility Functions
Shabbir Ahmed, Alper Atamturk

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Geometric Rounding: A Dependent Rounding Scheme for Allocation Problems
Dongdong Ge, Simai He, Yinyu Ye, Zizhuo Wang, Shuzhong Zhang

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Parallel Space Decomposition of the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search algorithm
Charles Audet, John, E., Jr. Dennis, Sebastien Le Digabel

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
OrthoMADS: A deterministic MADS instance with orthogonal directions
Mark A. Abramson, Charles Audet, John, E, Jr. Dennis, Sebastien Le Digabel

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Transfer Pricing in a Global Supply Chain
Sylvain Perron, Pierre Hansen, Sebastien Le Digabel, Nenad Nenad Mladenovic

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Passenger Name Record Data Mining Based Cancellation Forecasting for Revenue Management
Dolores Romero Morales, Jingbo Wang

Combinatorial Optimization
Metaheuristic hybridization with GRASP
Mauricio G. C. Resende

Combinatorial Optimization
Copositive programming motivated bounds on the stability and the chromatic numbers
Igor Dukanovic, Franz Rendl

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
On-line Service Scheduling
Zhenbo Wang, Wenxun Xing, Bo Chen

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Iterative Estimation Maximization for Stochastic Linear and Convex Programs with Conditional-Value-at-Risk Constraints
Pu Huang, Dharmashankar Subramanian

Applications — Science and Engineering
General algorithmic frameworks for online problems
Yair Censor, Simeon Reich, Alexander Zaslavski

Applications — Science and Engineering
Dimensionality Reduction for Classification - Comparison of Techniques and Dimension Choice
Frank Plastria, Steven De Bruyne, Emilio Carrizosa

Integer Programming
On sublattice determinants in reduced bases
Gabor Pataki, Mustafa Tural

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
SHOWCASE SCHEDULING AT FRED ASTAIRE EAST SIDE DANCE STUDIO
Miguel A. Lejeune, Nevena Yakova

Other Topics
Parimutuel Betting on Permutations
Shipra Agrawal, Zizhuo Wang, Yinyu Ye

Global Optimization
A new method for Value-at-Risk constrained optimization using the Difference of Convex Algorithm (DCA)
David Wozabal