All Areas Submissions - July 2012

Robust Optimization
Deriving robust counterparts of nonlinear uncertain inequalities
Aharon Ben-Tal, Dick den Hertog, Jean-Philippe Vial

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
STRONGLY REGULAR NONSMOOTH GENERALIZED EQUATIONS
Alexey Izmailov

Robust Optimization
Robust-Optimization: the elephant in the robust-satisficing room
Moshe Sniedovich

Integer Programming
Graver basis and proximity techniques for block-structured separable convex integer minimization problems
Raymond Hemmecke, Matthias Köppe, Robert Weismantel

Global Optimization
About the Convergence of Parametric Sum of Squares Relaxations
Philipp Renner

Stochastic Programming
Data-driven Chance Constrained Stochastic Program
Ruiwei Jiang, Yongpei Guan

Nonlinear Optimization
Aubin Property and Uniqueness of Solutions in Cone Constrained Optimization
Diethard Klatte, Bernd Kummer

Robust Optimization
Robust Decision Making using a General Utility Set
Jian Hu, Sanjay Mehortra

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Generalized Sylvester Problem and a Generalized Fermat-Torricelli Problem for Euclidean Balls
Nguyen Mau Nam, Nguyen Hoang, Nguyen Thai An

Stochastic Programming
Improving the Performance of Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming
Vitor de Matos, Andrew Philpott, Erlon Finardi

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
Interior point methods for sufficient LCP in a wide neighborhood of the central path with optimal iteration complexity
Florian A. Potra

Stochastic Programming
A note on the convergence of the SDDP algorithm
Kengy Barty

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A variable smoothing algorithm for solving convex optimization problems
Radu Ioan Bot, Christopher Hendrich

Integer Programming
Polyhedral Aspects of Self-Avoiding Walks
Agnes Dittel, Armin Fügenschuh, Alexander Martin

Robust Optimization
Multi-Range Robust Optimization vs Stochastic Programming in Prioritizing Project Selection
Ruken Duzgun, Aurelie Thiele

Nonlinear Optimization
Optimality conditions for the nonlinear programming problems on Riemannian manifolds
Yang Wei Hong, Zhang Lei-Hong, Song Ruyi

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An acceleration procedure for optimal first-order methods
Michel Baes, Michael Buergisser

Robust Optimization
Recent Advances in Robust Optimization and Robustness: An Overview
Virginie Gabrel, Cecile Murat, Aurelie Thiele

Stochastic Programming
Stochastic optimization and sparse statistical recovery: An optimal algorithm for high dimensions
Alekh Agarwal, Sahand Negahban, Martin Wainwright

Integer Programming
Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formulation Techniques
Juan Pablo Vielma

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Eliminating Duality Gap by Sigma Penalty
CAN KIZILKALE

Integer Programming
Chance-Constrained Programming Models and Approximation Algorithms for the Balance-Constrained Stochastic Bottleneck Spanning Tree Problem
Jue Wang, Siqian Shen, Murat Kurt

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Optimality, identifiability, and sensitivity
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Adrian S. Lewis

Combinatorial Optimization
A family of polytopes in the 0/1-cube with Gomory-Chvátal rank at least ((1+1/6)n - 4)
Can Kizilkale

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A first-order block-decomposition method for solving two-easy-block structured semidefinite programs
Renato D. C. Monteiro, Camilo Ortiz, Benar F. Svaiter

Other Topics
POST-PARETO ANALYSIS FOR MULTIOBJECTIVE PARABOLIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
Henri Bonnel

Nonlinear Optimization
Superiorization: An optimization heuristic for medical physics
Gabor T. Herman, Edgar Garduño, Ran Davidi, Yair Censor

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Optimal management and sizing of energy storage under dynamic pricing for the efficient integration of renewable energy
Pavithra Harsha, Munther Dahleh

Applications — Science and Engineering
Effective Strategies to Teach Operations Research to Non-Mathematics Majors
Somayeh Moazeni

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A QCQP Approach to Triangulation
Chris Aholt, Sameer Agarwal, Rekha Thomas