All Areas Submissions - September 2008

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
Necessary Conditions for the Impulsive Optimal Control of Multibody Mechanical Systems
Kerim Yunt

Global Optimization
Descent heuristics for unconstrained minimization
Florian Jarre, Ania Lopez

Applications — Science and Engineering
Dantzig-Wolfe and block coordinate-descent decomposition in large-scale integrated refinery-planning
Adebayo Alabi, Jordi Castro

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Quadratic regularizations in an interior-point method for primal block-angular problems
Jordi Castro, Jordi Cuesta

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Gradient based method for cone programming with application to large-scale compressed sensing
Zhaosong Lu

Nonlinear Optimization
A nonmonotone truncated Newton-Krylov method exploiting negative curvature directions, for large scale unconstrained optimization: complete results
Giovanni Fasano, Stefano Lucidi

Integer Programming
On mixing inequalities: rank, closure and cutting plane proofs
Sanjeeb Dash, Oktay Gunluk

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Lecture notes: Semidefinite programs and harmonic analysis
Frank Vallentin

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Impulsive Optimal Control of Hybrid Finite-Dimensional Lagrangian Systems
Kerim Yunt

Applications — Science and Engineering
On Verifiable Sufficient Conditions for Sparse Signal Recovery via L1 Minimization
A.S. Nemirovski, A.B. Juditsky

Applications — Science and Engineering
Primal-dual interior-point methods with asymmetric barrier
Yurii Nesterov

Stochastic Programming
Progressive Hedging Innovations for a Class of Stochastic Resource Allocation Problems
Jean-Paul Watson, David Woodruff, David Strip

Applications — Science and Engineering
Locating Restricted Facilities on Binary Maps
Mugurel Ionut Andreica, Cristina Teodora Andreica, Madalina Ecaterina Andreica

Integer Programming
A Note on Split Rank of Intersection Cuts
Santanu Dey

Stochastic Programming
Chance-constrained optimization via randomization: feasibility and optimality
M.C. Campi, S. Garatti

Combinatorial Optimization
Test problems for quasi-satellite packing: Cylinders packing with behavior constraints and all the optimal solutions known
Chao Che, Yi-shou Wang, Hong-fei Teng

Combinatorial Optimization
A Level-3 Reformulation-linearization Technique Bound for the Quadratic Assignment Problem
Peter M. Hahn, Yi-Rong Zhu, Monique Guignard, William L. Hightower

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
Python Optimization Modeling Objects (Pyomo)
William Hart

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Linear Programming Approach for the Least-Squares Protein Morphing Problem
Mihai Anitescu, Sanghyun Park

Combinatorial Optimization
Detecting Critical Nodes in Sparse Graphs
Ashwin Arulselvan, Clayton Commander, Lily Elefteriadou, Panos Pardalos

Nonlinear Optimization
SESOP-TN: Combining Sequential Subspace Optimization with Truncated Newton method
Michael Zibulevsky

Applications — Science and Engineering
A Probabilistic Constraint Approach for Robust Beamforming with Imperfect Channel Information
Pei-Jung Chung, Huiqin Du, Jacek Gondzio

Global Optimization
Strong Valid Inequalities for Orthogonal Disjunctions and Bilinear Covering Sets
Mohit Tawarmalani, Jean-Philippe P. Richard, Kwanghun Chung

Global Optimization
PSwarm: A Hybrid Solver for Linearly Constrained Global Derivative-Free Optimization
A. I. F. Vaz, L. N. Vicente

Other Topics
Inferring Company Structure from Limited Available Information
Mugurel Ionut Andreica, Romulus Andreica, Angela Andreica

Other Topics
Implicitely and Densely Discrete Black-Box Optimization Problems
L. N. Vicente

Integer Programming
Mixed-Integer Models for Nonseparable Piecewise Linear Optimization: Unifying Framework and Extensions
Juan Pablo Vielma, Shabbir Ahmed, George Nemhauser