All Areas Submissions - May 2017

Applications — Science and Engineering
Optimal threshold classification characteristics
David Kisets

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An Alternating Minimization Method for Robust Principal Component Analysis
Yuan Shen, Hongyu Xu, Xin Liu

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Partial Convolution for Total Variation Deblurring and Denoising by New Linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers with Extension Step
Yuan Shen, Lei Ji

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A symmetric version of the generalized alternating direction method of multipliers for two-block separable convex programming
Liu Jing, Duan Yongrui, Sun Min

Other Topics
Airport Capacity Extension, Fleet Investment, and Optimal Aircraft Scheduling in a Four-Level Market Model: On the Effects of Market Regulations
Mathias Sirvent, Martin Weibelzahl

Integer Programming
Packing, Partitioning, and Covering Symresacks
Christopher Hojny

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Optimizing regular symmetric timetables: a method to reach the best modal split for railway
Maurizio Bruglieri, Roberto Maja, Samuel Tolentino

Nonlinear Optimization
A two-phase gradient method for quadratic programming problems with a single linear constraint and bounds on the variables
Daniela di Serafino, Gerardo Toraldo, Marco Viola, Jesse Barlow

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
Parallel Solvers for Mixed Integer Linear Optimization
Ted K. Ralphs, Yuji Shinano, Timo Berthold, Thorsten Koch

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
ADMM for monotone operators: convergence analysis and rates
Radu Ioan Bot, Ernö Robert Csetnek

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Local Linear Convergence Analysis of Primal–Dual Splitting Methods
Jingwei Liang, Jalal Fadili, Gabriel Peyré

Nonlinear Optimization
A Derivative-Free and Ready-to-Use NLP Solver for Matlab or Octave
Florian Jarre, Felix Lieder

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The symmetric ADMM with positive-indefinite proximal regularization and its application
Sun Min, Tian Maoying, Sun Hongchun

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Warm-start of interior point methods for second order cone optimization via rounding over optimal Jordan frames
Sertalp B. Çay, Imre Pólik, Tamás Terlaky

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On the pointwise iteration-complexity of a dynamic regularized ADMM with over-relaxation stepsize
M.L.N. Goncalves

Nonlinear Optimization
Stability and accuracy of Inexact Interior Point methods for convex quadratic programming
Benedetta Morini, Valeria Simoncini

Network Optimization
The uncapacitated p-hub center problem under the existence of zero flows
Enver Engür, Banu Soylu

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Multilevel Model of the European Entry-Exit Gas Market
Veronika Grimm, Lars Schewe, Martin Schmidt, Gregor Zöttl

Applications — Science and Engineering
Multistage Stochastic Unit Commitment Using Stochastic Dual Dynamic Integer Programming
Jikai Zou, Shabbir Ahmed, Andy Sun

Nonlinear Optimization
A Primal-Dual Augmented Lagrangian Penalty-Interior-Point Filter Line Search Algorithm
Renke Kuhlmann, Christof Büskens

Nonlinear Optimization
Global and Local Convergence of a Levenberg-Marquadt Algorithm for Inverse Problems
Y. Diouane, E. Bergou, V. Kungurtsev

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Subdifferentiation and Smoothing of Nonsmooth Integral Functionals
James Burke, Xiaojun Chen, Hailin Sun

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The Many Faces of Degeneracy in Conic Optimization
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Henry Wolkowicz

Stochastic Programming
A Progressive Hedging Based Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs
Semih Atakan, Suvrajeet Sen

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Polynomial Norms
Amir Ali Ahmadi, Etienne de Klerk, Georgina Hall

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The Urban Recharging Infrastructure Design Problem with Stochastic Demands and Capacitated Recharging Stations
Baris Yildiz, Evren Olcaytu

Network Optimization
Branch-and-cut methods for the Network Design Problem with Vulnerability Constraints
Luís Gouveia, Martim Joyce-Moniz, Markus Leitner

Combinatorial Optimization
A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Discrete Bilevel Linear Programs
Junlong Zhang, Osman Y. Ozaltin

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An Investigation of Newton-Sketch and Subsampled Newton Methods
Albert S. Berahas, Raghu Bollapragada, Jorge Nocedal

Integer Programming
Using Bit Representation to Improve LP Relaxations of Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programs
Laura Galli, Adam N. Letchford, Daniel J. Grainger

Nonlinear Optimization
Optimization Problems Involving Group Sparsity Terms
Amir Beck, Nadav Hallak

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Exact augmented Lagrangian functions for nonlinear semidefinite programming
Ellen H. Fukuda, Bruno F. Lourenco

Robust Optimization
Extending the Scope of Robust Quadratic Optimization
Ahmadreza Marandi, Aharon Ben-Tal, Dick den Hertog, Bertrand Melenberg

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Bad semidefinite programs, and the closedness of the linear image of the semidefinite cone: a simplified analysis
Gabor Pataki

Nonlinear Optimization
Asynchronous Coordinate Descent under More Realistic Assumptions
Sun Tao, Hannah Robert , Yin Wotao

Nonlinear Optimization
Iteration-complexity of a Jacobi-type non-Euclidean ADMM for multi-block linearly constrained nonconvex programs
Jefferson Melo, Renato Monteiro

Nonlinear Optimization
Optimality of orders one to three and beyond: characterization and evaluation complexity in constrained nonconvex optimization
Coralia Cartis, Nicholas I. M. Gould, Philippe L. Toint

Nonlinear Optimization
Combining pattern search and implicit filtering for solving linearly constrained minimization problems with noisy objective functions
M. A. Diniz-Ehrhardt, D. G. Ferreira, S. A. Santos

Other Topics
Lower Bound On the Computational Complexity of Discounted Markov Decision Problems
Mengdi Wang, Yichen Chen

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Error bounds for rank constrained optimization problems and applications
Shujun Bi, Shaohua Pan

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Exact penalty decomposition method for zero-norm minimization based on MPEC formulation
Shujun Bi, Xiaolan Liu, Shaohua Pan

Applications — Science and Engineering
Integrated Generator Maintenance and Operations Scheduling under Uncertain Failure Times
Beste Basciftci, Shabbir Ahmed, Nagi Gebraeel, Murat Yildirim

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Size Matters: Cardinality-Constrained Clustering and Outlier Detection via Conic Optimization
Napat Rujeerapaiboon, Kilian Schindler, Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Oracle Complexity of Second-Order Methods for Smooth Convex Optimization
Ohad Shamir, Ron Shiff

Integer Programming
SOLVING MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMS USING ADAPTIVELY REFINED MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMS
Robert Burlacu, Björn Geißler, Lars Schewe

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
The New Buttery Relaxation Methods for Mathematical Program with Complementarity Constraints
Tangi Migot, Mounir Haddou, Jean-Pierre Dussault

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
How to Compute a Local Minimum of the MPCC
Tangi Migot, Jean-Pierre Dussault, Mounir Haddou, Abdeslam Kadrani

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Distributionally Robust Markovian Traffic Equilibrium
Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu, Ugur Arikan, Karthik Natarajan

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The Noncooperative Transportation Problem
Oliver Stein, Nathan Sudermann-Merx

Nonlinear Optimization
An Inexact Newton-like conditional gradient method for constrained nonlinear systems
M.L.N. Goncalves, F.R. Oliveira

Applications — Science and Engineering
DYNAMIC SYSTEM CONTROL DISPATCH: A GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
giorgio fasano

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Dual Dynamic Programming with cut selection: convergence proof and numerical experiments
Vincent Guigues

Nonlinear Optimization
A simplicial decomposition framework for large scale convex quadratic programming
Enrico Bettiol, Lucas Létocart, Francesco Rinaldi, Emiliano Traversi

Nonlinear Optimization
Vector Transport-Free SVRG with General Retraction for Riemannian Optimization: Complexity Analysis and Practical Implementation
Bo Jiang, Shiqian Ma, Anthony Man-Cho So, Shuzhong Zhang

Stochastic Programming
Multicut decomposition methods with cut selection for multistage stochastic programs
Vincent Guigues, Michelle Bandarra

Applications — Science and Engineering
Best subset selection via bi-objective mixed integer linear programming
Hadi Charkhgard, Ali Eshragh

Nonlinear Optimization
Globally Solving a Class of Optimal Power Flow Problems in Radial Networks by Tree Reduction
Amir Beck, Yuval Beck, Yoash Levron, Alex Shtof, Luba Tetruashvili

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Analyzing Tax Incentives for Producing Renewable Energy by Biomass Cofiring
Hadi Karimi, Sandra D. Eksioglu, Amin Khademi

Nonlinear Optimization
Two New Weak Constraint Qualifications for Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints and Applications
Alberto Ramos

Applications — Science and Engineering
A Stochastic MPC Framework for Stationary Battery Systems
Ranjeet Kumar, Michael Wenzel, Matthew Ellis, Mohammad ElBsat, Kirk Drees, Victor M. Zavala

Stochastic Programming
The Adaptive Sampling Gradient Method: Optimizing Smooth Functions with an Inexact Oracle
Fatemeh Hashemi, Pasupathy Raghu, Michael Taaffe

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Regularized Nonlinear Acceleration
Damien Scieur, Francis Bach, Alexandre d'Aspremont

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Sharpness, Restart and Acceleration.
Vincent Roulet, Alexandre d'Aspremont

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Integration Methods and Accelerated Optimization Algorithms
Damien Scieur, Vincent Roulet, Francis Bach, Alexandre d'Aspremont

Applications — Science and Engineering
A New Voltage Stability-Constrained Optimal Power Flow Model: Sufficient Condition, SOCP Representation, and Relaxation
Bai Cui, Andy Sun