All Areas Submissions - April 2014

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An inventory model with shortages for imperfect items using substitution of two products
A Mukhopadhyay, A GOSWAMI

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Parallel Algorithms for Big Data Optimization
Francisco Facchinei, Simone Sagratella, Gesualdo Scutari

Global Optimization
A Global Optimization Approach to the Design of Solar Power Plants
E. Carrizosa, C. Domínguez-Bravo, E. Fernández-Cara, M. Quero

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Measuring the attractiveness of academic journals: A direct influence aggregation model
Fabien Cornillier, Vincent Charles

Nonlinear Optimization
Assessing the reliability of general-purpose Inexact Restoration methods
E. G. Birgin, L. F. Bueno, J. M. Martinez

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
The Slater Conundrum: Duality and Pricing in Infinite Dimensional Optimization
Kipp Martin, Christopher Thomas Ryan, Matthew Stern

Integer Programming
A Note on Linear On/Off Constraints
Hassan L. Hijazi, Pierre Bonami, Adam Ouorou

Other Topics
Surrogate upper bound sets for bi-objective bi-dimensional binary knapsack problems
Audrey Cerqueus, Anthony Przybylski, Xavier Gandibleux

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Generalized Inexact Proximal Point Method for Nonsmooth Functions that Satisfies Kurdyka Lojasiewicz Inequality
Glaydston Bento, Antoine Soubeyran

Integer Programming
The Connected Facility Location Polytope: Valid Inequalities, Facets and a Computational Study
Markus Leitner, Ivana Ljubic, Juan-Jose Salazar-Gonzalez, Markus Sinnl

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Scheduling on a single machine under time-of-use electricity tariffs
Kan Fang, Nelson A. Uhan, Fu Zhao, John W. Sutherland

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A note on Fejér-monotone sequences in product spaces and its applications to the dual convergence of augmented Lagrangian methods
Maicon Marques Alves, Benar Fux Svaiter

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Considering Copositivity Locally
Peter J.C. Dickinson, Roland Hildebrand

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The cooperative orienteering problem with time windows
Martijn Van der Merwe, James P Minas, Melih Ozlen, John W Hearne

Applications — Science and Engineering
Modal occupation measures and LMI relaxations for nonlinear switched systems control
Mathieu Claeys, Jamal Daafouz, Didier Henrion

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An inertial alternating direction method of multipliers
Radu Ioan Bot, Ernö Robert Csetnek

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
Parallel Large-Neighborhood Search Techniques for LNG Inventory Routing
Badrinarayanan Velamur Asokan, Kevin C Furman, Vikas Goel, Yufen Shao, Guangye Li

Combinatorial Optimization
Unifying set-copositive formulations of binary problems and randomization techniques
Felix Lieder, Fatameh Bani Asadi Rad Rad, Florian Jarre

Other Topics
Approximating Pareto Curves using Semidefinite Relaxations
Victor Magron, Didier Henrion, Jean-Bernard Lasserer

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Convergence Rates with Inexact Nonexpansive Operators
Jingwei Liang, Jalal Fadili, Gabriel Peyré

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Unit commitment with valve-point loading effect
João Pedro Pedroso, Mikio Kubo, Ana Viana

Integer Programming
How important are branching decisions: fooling MIP solvers
Pierre Le Bodic, George L. Nemhauser

Other Topics
Minimal Points, Variational Principles, and Variable Preferences in Set Optimization
Truong Q. Bao, Boris S. Mordukhovich, Antoine Soubeyran

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Forward - Backward Greedy Algorithms for Atomic - Norm Regularization
Nikhil Rao, Parikshit Shah, Stephen Wright

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
A Power Penalty Method for Second-order Cone Nonlinear Complementarity Problems
Zijun Hao, Zhongping Wan, Xiaoni Chi, Jiawei Chen

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
An LP-based Algorithm to Test Copositivity
Akihiro Tanaka, Akiko Yoshise

Stochastic Programming
Validating Sample Average Approximation Solutions with Negatively Dependent Batches
Jiajie Chen, Cong Han Lim, Peter Qian, Jeff Linderoth, Stephen Wright

Nonlinear Optimization
An Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Optimization Problems with Locatable and Separable Nonsmoothness
Martin Schmidt

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An accelerated HPE-type algorithm for a class of composite convex-concave saddle-point problems
Yunlong He, Renato D.C. Monteiro

Stochastic Programming
Improving the integer L-shaped method
Gustavo Angulo, Shabbir Ahmed, Santanu S. Dey

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Stochastic Quasi-Fejér Block-Coordinate Fixed Point Iterations with Random Sweeping
Patrick L. Combettes, Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Integer Programming
A several new mixed integer linear programming formulations for exploration of online social networks
Zoran Gajic

Integer Programming
Two-Term Disjunctions on the Second-Order Cone
Fatma Kilinc Karzan, Sercan Yildiz

Robust Optimization
Reformulations versus cutting planes for robust optimization: A computational and machine learning perspective
Dimitris Bertsimas, Iain Dunning, Miles Lubin