All Areas Submissions - May 2013

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
About uniform regularity of collections of sets
Alexander Y. Kruger, Nguyen H. Thao

Robust Optimization
Distributionally robust control of constrained stochastic systems
Bart P.G. Van Parys, Kuhn Daniel, Paul J. Goulart, Manfred Morari

Global Optimization
A note on Legendre-Fenchel conjugate of the product of two positive-definite quadratic forms
Xia Yong

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Practical Multi-objective Programming
Isaac Siwale

Nonlinear Optimization
An Inexact Sequential Quadratic Optimization Algorithm for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization
Frank E Curtis, Travis C Johnson, Daniel P Robinson, Andreas Waechter

Nonlinear Optimization
Incremental Accelerated Gradient Methods for SVM Classification: Study of the Constrained Approach
Nicolas Couellan, Sophie Jan

Robust Optimization
Asymptotic Convergence Analysis for Distributional Robust Optimization and Equilibrium Problems
Hailin Sun, Huifu Xu

Stochastic Programming
Kusuoka Representations of Coherent Risk Measures in General Probability Spaces
Nilay Noyan, Gabor Rudolf

Nonlinear Optimization
An example of slow convergence for Newton's method on a function with globally Lipschitz continuous Hessian
Coralia Cartis, Nicholas I.M. Gould, Philippe L. Toint

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
CUTEst: a Constrained and Unconstrained Testing Environment with safe threads
Nicholas Gould, Dominique Orban, Philippe Toint

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Solution of Nonlinear Equations via Optimization
Isaac Siwale

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The proximal-proximal gradient algorithm
Ting Kei Pong

Applications — Science and Engineering
MIDACO on MINLP Space Applications
Martin Schlueter, Sven Erb, Matthias Gerdts, Steven Kemble, Jan Joachim Rueckmann

Global Optimization
Efficient random coordinate descent algorithms for large-scale structured nonconvex optimization
Ion Necoara, Andrei Patrascu

Other Topics
Generalized vector-valued proximal point algorithm in multi-objective optimization
R.A. Rocha, P.R. Oliveira, R. Gregório, M. Souza

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
GENERALIZATIONS OF THE DENNIS-MOR\'E THEOREM II
Asen L. Dontchev

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Minimal Residual Methods for Complex Symmetric, Skew Symmetric, and Skew Hermitian Systems
Sou-Cheng Choi

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An interior proximal point method with phi-divergence for Equilibrium Problems
Paulo Oliveira, Paulo Santos, Afonso Silva, Arnaldo Brito

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
Nonlinear Equilibrium for optimal resource allocation
Roman Polyak

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Lagrangian Transformation and Interior Ellipsoid Methods in Convex Optimization
Roman Polyak

Nonlinear Optimization
A filter method with unified step computation for nonlinear optimization
Nicholas I. M. Gould, Yueling Loh, Daniel P. Robinson

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Strong Preemptive Relaxation for Weighted Tardiness and Earliness/Tardiness Problems on Unrelated Parallel Machines
Halil Sen, Kerem Bulbul

Nonlinear Optimization
A Linesearch-based Derivative-free Approach for Nonsmooth Optimization
Giovanni Fasano, Giampaolo Liuzzi, Stefano Lucidi, Francesco Rinaldi

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Strategic Health Workforce Planning
Weihong Hu, Mariel S. Lavieri, Alejandro Toriello, Xiang Liu

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An FPTAS for Capacity Constrained Assortment Optimization
Antoine Desir, Vineet Goyal

Robust Optimization
Robustness to Dependency in Portfolio Optimization Using Overlapping Marginals
Xiaobo Li, Karthik Natarajan, Xuan Vinh Doan

Network Optimization
The cut condition for robust network design
Sara Mattia

Robust Optimization
CVaR Approximations for Minimax and Robust Convex Optimization
Edward Anderson, Huifu Xu, Dali Zhang

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
On a generalization of P\'olya's and Putinar-Vasilescu's Positivstellens\"atze
Peter J.C. Dickinson, Janez Povh

Nonlinear Optimization
A matrix-free approach to build band preconditioners for large-scale bound-constrained optimization
Valentina De Simone, Daniela di Serafino

Integer Programming
Cutting-planes for optimization of convex functions over nonconvex sets
Daniel Bienstock, Alexander Michalka

Nonlinear Optimization
Dual equilibrium problems: how a succession of aspiration points converges to an equilibrium
Felipe Garcia Moreno, Paulo Roberto Oliveira, Antoine Soubeyran

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
Computing in Operations Research using Julia
Miles Lubin, Iain Dunning

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Worst-Case Results For Positive Semidefinite Rank
Jo\~ao Gouveia, Richard Z. Robinson, Rekha R. Thomas

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A proximal technique for computing the Karcher mean of symmetric positive definite matrices
Ronaldo Malheiros Gregório, Paulo Roberto Oliveira

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On the Complexity Analysis of Randomized Block-Coordinate Descent Methods
Zhaosong Lu, Lin Xiao

Applications — Science and Engineering
Adaptive Observations And Multilevel Optimization In Data Assimilation
Serge Gratton, Monserrat Rincon-Camacho, Philippe L. Toint

Nonlinear Optimization
Second-order necessary conditions in Pontryagin form for optimal control problems
J. Frederic Bonnans, Xavier Dupuis, Laurent Pfeiffer

Nonlinear Optimization
Second-order sufficient conditions for strong solutions to optimal control problems
J. Frederic Bonnans, Xavier Dupuis, Laurent Pfeiffer

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Robust convex relaxation for the planted clique and densest k-subgraph problems
Brendan Ames

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Level Bundle Methods for Constrained Convex Optimization with Various Oracles
Wim van Ackooij , Welington de Oliveira

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Nonsmooth Optimization Using Uncontrolled Inexact Information
Jérôme Malick, Welington de Oliveira, sofia Zaourar

Nonlinear Optimization
An inexact and nonmonotone proximal method for smooth unconstrained minimization
S. A. Santos, R. C. M. Silva

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On full Jacobian decomposition of the augmented Lagrangian method for separable convex programming
Bingsheng He, Liusheng Hou, Xiaoming Yuan

Other Topics
A Trust-Region Method for Unconstrained Multiobjective Problems with Applications in Satisficing Processes
Kely Diana Villacorta, Paulo Roberto Oliveira, Antoine Soubeyran

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Credit Price Optimisation within Retail Banking
T. De la Rey, S.E. Terblanche

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Updating LU Factors of LP Simplex Bases
Sande Gordon

Combinatorial Optimization
Acceleration and Stabilization Techniques for Column Generation Applied to Capacitated Resource Management Problems
Alper Uygur

Combinatorial Optimization
Handelman's hierarchy for the maximum stable set problem
Monique Laurent, Zhao Sun

Integer Programming
Using diversification, communication and parallelism to solve mixed-integer linear programs
Rodolfo Carvajal, Shabbir Ahmed, George Nemhauser, Kevin Furman, Vikas Goel, Yufen Shao

Nonlinear Optimization
Efficient tridiagonal preconditioner for the matrix-free truncated Newton method
Ladislav Luksan, Jan Vlcek

Global Optimization
Nonmonotone line search methods with variable sample size
Nataša Krejić, Nataša Krklec Jerinkić

Global Optimization
New and Improved Conditions for Uniqueness of Sparsest Solutions of Underdetermined Linear Systems
Y Zhao

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The Complexity of Large-scale Convex Programming under a Linear Optimization Oracle
Guanghui Lan