All Areas Submissions - June 2018

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Multi-Product Newsvendor Problem with Customer-driven Demand Substitution: A Stochastic Integer Program Perspective
Jie Zhang, Weijun Xie, Subhash Sarin

Combinatorial Optimization
An Approximation Algorithm for Vehicle Routing with Compatibility Constraints
Miao Yu, Viswanath Nagarajan, Siqian Shen

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The Proximal Alternating Minimization Algorithm for two-block separable convex optimization problems with linear constraints
Sandy Bitterlich, Radu Ioan Bot, Ernö Robert Csetnek, Gert Wanka

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
A lower bound on the iterative complexity of the Harker and Pang globalization technique of the Newton-min algorithm for solving the linear complementarity problem
Jean-Pierre Dussault, Mathieu Frappier, Jean Charles Gilbert

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Column Generation Algorithm for Vehicle Scheduling and Routing Problems
Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Chrysafis Vogiatzis and , Md. Noor-E-Alam

Other Topics
Bi-objective Simulation Optimization on Integer Lattices using the Epsilon-Constraint Method in a Retrospective Approximation Framework
Kyle Cooper, Susan R Hunter, Kalyani Nagaraj

Integer Programming
A Review and Comparison of Solvers for Convex MINLP
Jan Kronqvist, David E. Bernal, Andreas Lundell, Ignacio E. Grossmann

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Robust Principal Component Analysis and Its Variants
Shiqian Ma, Necdet S. Aybat

Applications — Science and Engineering
The CCP Selector: Scalable Algorithms for Sparse Ridge Regression from Chance-Constrained Programming
Weijun Xie, Xinwei Deng

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Scenario Decomposition Algorithm for Strategic Time Window Assignment Vehicle Routing Problems
Anirudh Subramanyam, Akang Wang, Chrysanthos Gounaris

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A sparse optimization approach for energy-efficient timetabling in metro railway systems
Xiaoyu Li, Ziyan Luo, Naihua Xiu

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
On a New Modelling Approach for Circular Layouts and its Practical Advantages
Philipp Hungerländer , Kerstin Maier, Pöcher Jörg, Christian Truden

Nonlinear Optimization
A structured diagonal Hessian approximation method with evaluation complexity analysis for nonlinear least squares
Hassan Mohammad, Sandra A. Santos

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Convergence Rates for Projective Splitting
Patrick R. Johnstone, Jonathan Eckstein

Applications — Science and Engineering
Solution for short-term hydrothermal scheduling with a logarithmic size MILP formulation
Jinbao Jian, Shanshan Pan, Linfeng Yang

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Strict Complementarity in MaxCut SDP
Marcel de Carli Silva, Levent Tunçel

Nonlinear Optimization
Selection of variables in parallel space decomposition for the mesh adaptive direct search algorithm
Stéphane Alarie, Nadir Amaioua, Charles Audet, Sébastien Le Digabel, Louis-Alexndre Leclaire

Robust Optimization
On the heavy-tail behavior of the distributionally robust newsvendor
Bikramjit Das, Anulekha Dhara, Karthik Natarajan

Stochastic Programming
On Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Program with Wasserstein Distance
Weijun Xie

Nonlinear Optimization
Interior Point Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization with Sparsity Constraints
John W. Pearson, Margherita Porcelli, Martin Stoll

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On the Complexity of Detecting Convexity over a Box
Amir Ali Ahmadi, Georgina Hall

Combinatorial Optimization
Benders Decomposition for Very Large Scale Partial Set Covering and Maximal Covering Problems
Jean-françois Cordeau, Fabio Furini, Ivana Ljubic

Stochastic Programming
Envelope Theorems for Multi-Stage Linear Stochastic Optimization
David Wozabal, Goncalo Terca

Other Topics
Convergence rates for an inertial algorithm of gradient type associated to a smooth nonconvex minimization
Laszlo Szilard Csaba

Robust Optimization
The Value of Randomized Solutions in Mixed-Integer Distributionally Robust Optimization Problems
Erick Delage, Ahmed Saif

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Multi-stage Stochastic Programming for Demand Response Optimization
Munise Kübra Şahin, Özlem Çavuş, Hande Yaman

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The Integrated Last-Mile Transportation Problem
Arvind U. Raghunathan, David Bergman, John Hooker, Thiago Serra

Robust Optimization
Data-driven Chance Constrained Programs over Wasserstein Balls
Zhi Chen, Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Dual Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Multi-stage Stochastic Unit Commitment
Jagdish Ramakrishnan, James Luedtke

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Lagrange decomposition based Branch and Bound algorithm for the Optimal Mapping of Cloud Virtual Machines
Guanglei Wang, Walid Ben-Ameur, Adam Ouorou

Combinatorial Optimization
New facets for the consecutive ones polytope
Luigi De Giovanni, Laura Brentegani, Mattia Festa

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An Enhanced Branch and Price Algorithm for the Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Gonzalo Lera Romero, Juan José Miranda Bront, Francisco Soulignac

Nonlinear Optimization
On the Relation between MPECs and Optimization Problems in Abs-Normal Form
L Hegerhorst-Schultchen, C Kirches, M C Steinbach

Nonlinear Optimization
Quasi-Newton approaches to Interior Point Methods for quadratic problems
Jacek Gondzio, Francisco N. C. Sobral

Nonlinear Optimization
New sequential optimality conditions for mathematical problems with complementarity constraints and algorithmic consequences
R. Andreani, G. Haeser, L.D. Secchin, P.J.S. Silva

Robust Optimization
Approximation of hard uncertain convex inequalities
Ernst Roos, Dick den Hertog, Aharon Ben-Tal, Frans de Ruiter, Jianzhe Zhen

Integer Programming
The Supporting Hyperplane Optimization Toolkit
Andreas Lundell, Jan Kronqvist, Tapio Westerlund

Nonlinear Optimization
An inexact strategy for the projected gradient algorithm in vector optimization problems on variable ordered spaces
J.Y. Bello-Cruz, G. Bouza-Allende

Applications — Science and Engineering
Correlation analysis between the vibroacoustic behavior of steering gear and ball nut assemblies in the automotive industry
Paul Alexandru Bucur, Klaus Frick, Philipp Hungerländer

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
The automorphism group and the non-self-duality of p-cones
Masaru Ito, Bruno F. Lourenco

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A multilevel analysis of the Lasserre hierarchy
Juan S Campos, Ruth Misener, Panos Parpas

Robust Optimization
Disjoint Bilinear Programming: An Adjustable Robust Optimization Perspective
Jianzhe Zhen, Ahmadreza Marandi, Dick den Hertog, Lieven Vandenberghe

Integer Programming
Solving Stochastic and Bilevel Mixed-Integer Programs via a Generalized Value Function
Onur Tavaslioglu, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Andrew J. Schaefer

Integer Programming
On the impact of running intersection inequalities for globally solving polynomial optimization problems
Alberto Del Pia, Aida Khajavirad, Nikolaos Sahinidis

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The Standard Pessimistic Bilevel Problem
L. Lampariello, S. Sagratella, O. Stein

Robust Optimization
On the Optimality of Affine Policies for Budgeted Uncertainty Sets
Omar El Housni, Vineet Goyal