All Areas Submissions - July 2002

Combinatorial Optimization
Two-connected networks with rings of bounded cardinality
Bernard Fortz, Martine Labbé

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On differentiability of symmetric matrix valued functions
Alexander Shapiro

Combinatorial Optimization
On graphs with stability number equal to the optimal value of a convex quadratic program
Domingos M. Cardoso

Integer Programming
Lower bound for the number of iterations in semidefinite hierarchies for the cut polytope
Monique Laurent

Integer Programming
Solving the knapsack problem via Z-transform
Jean B. Lasserre, Eduardo S. Zeron

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On a class of nonsmooth composite functions
Alexander Shapiro

Combinatorial Optimization
Lagrangian Smoothing Heuristic for Max-Cut
Hernán Alperin, Ivo Nowak

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Analysis of a Path Following Method for Nonsmooth Convex Programs
Sanjay Mehrotra, Muhittin Ozevin

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
Parallel Interval Continuous Global Optimization Algorithms
abdeljalil benyoub

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Minimizing nonconvex nonsmooth functions via cutting planes and proximity control
Antonio Fuduli, Manlio Gaudioso, Giovanni Giallombardo

Nonlinear Optimization
A Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Programming with Strong Global and Local Convergence Properties.
Andre L. Tits, Andreas Waechter, Sasan Bakhtiari, Thomas J. Urban, Craig T. Lawrence

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
The Inverse Optimal Value Problem
Shabbir Ahmed, Yongpei Guan

Applications — Science and Engineering
TfMin: Short Reference Manual
Jean-Baptiste Caillau, Joseph Gergaud, Joseph Noailles

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Class of Hybrid Methods for Revenue Management
William Cooper, Tito Homem-de-Mello

Applications — Science and Engineering
Distance Weighted Discrimination
J. S. Marron, M. J. Todd

Nonlinear Optimization
Interior-Point Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming: Complementarity Constraints
Hande Y. Benson, David F. Shanno, Robert J. Vanderbei

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Unifying Condition Numbers for Linear Programming
Dennis Cheung, Felipe Cucker, Javier Pena

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Computation of Minimum Volume Covering Ellipsoids
Peng Sun, Robert M. Freund