All Areas Submissions - September 2012

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem with Stochastic Arc Costs
Alejandro Toriello, William B. Haskell, Michael Poremba

Global Optimization
Branch-and-Lift Algorithm for Deterministic Global Optimization in Nonlinear Optimal Control
Boris Houska, Benoit Chachuat

Stochastic Programming
Dynamic sequencing and cut consolidation for the parallel hybrid-cut nested L-shaped method
Christian Wolf, Achim Koberstein

Nonlinear Optimization
Primal-dual relations between the central path and the Levenberg-Marquardt trajectory: a warm starting in convex programming
Roger Behling, Clovis Gonzaga, Gabriel Haeser

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On Stable Piecewise Linearization and Generalized Algorithmic Differentiation
Andreas Griewank

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Erratum to: ``On the set-semidefinite representation of nonconvex quadratic programs over arbitrary feasible sets'' [Optim. Letters, 2012]
Peter J.C. Dickinson, Gabriele Eichfelder, Janez Povh

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Second-order variational analysis and characterizations of tilt-stable optimal solutions in finite and infinite dimensions
Boris Mordukhovich, Nghia Tran

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Optimization Model for Completely Positive Cone Programming
Naohiko Arima, Sunyoung Kim, Masakazu Kojima

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Gradient consistency for integral-convolution smoothing functions
James V. Burke, Tim Hoheisel, Christian Kanzow

Nonlinear Optimization
On the complexity of the steepest-descent with exact linesearches
Coralia Cartis, Nick Gould, Philippe Toint

Applications — Science and Engineering
Linearizing the Method of Conjugate Gradients
Serge Gratton, David Titley-Peloquin, Philippe Toint, Jean Tshimanga Ilunga

Applications — Science and Engineering
Conjugate-gradients versus multigrid solvers for diffusion-based correlation models in data assimilation
Serge Gratton, Philippe Toint, Jean Tshimanga Ilunga

Nonlinear Optimization
How much patience do you have? A worst-case perspective on smooth nonconvex optimization
Coralia Cartis, Nick Gould, Philippe Toint

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Compressed Sensing Off the Grid
Gongguo Tang, Badri Narayan Bhaskar, Parikshit Shah, Benjamin Recht

Stochastic Programming
Threshold Boolean Form for Joint Probabilistic Constraints with Random Technology Matrix
Alexander Kogan, Miguel Lejeune

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Alternating Proximal Gradient Method for Convex Minimization
Shiqian Ma

Applications — Science and Engineering
On RIC bounds of Compressed Sensing Matrices for Approximating Sparse Solutions Using Lq Quasi Norms
Hsia Yong, Sheu Ruey-Lin

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Convergence rate and iteration complexity on the alternating direction method of multipliers with a substitution procedure for separable convex programming
Bingsheng He, Min Tao, Xiaoming Yuan

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Improving an interior-point approach for large block-angular problems by hybrid preconditioners
Silvana Bocanegra, Jordi Castro, Aurelio R.L. Oliveira

Robust Optimization
Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization
Dan Iancu, Nikolaos Trichakis

Integer Programming
Automatic Dantzig-Wolfe Reformulation of Mixed Integer Programs
Martin Bergner, Alberto Caprara, Alberto Ceselli, Fabio Furini, Marco Lübbecke, Enrico Malaguti, Emilio Traversi

Robust Optimization
Risk Analysis 101: fooled by local robustness ... again!
Moshe Sniedovich

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A concentrated Cauchy distribution with finite moments
ADI BEN-ISRAEL

Applications — Science and Engineering
Variable Neighborhood Search for parameter tuning in Support Vector Machines
Emilio Carrizosa, Martín-Barragán Belén, Romero Morales Dolores

Stochastic Programming
Are Quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms efficient for two-stage stochastic programs?
Holger Heitsch, Hernan Leovey, Werner Romisch

Nonlinear Optimization
Low-rank matrix completion via trust-regions on the Grassmann manifold
Nicolas Boumal, P.-A. Absil

Robust Optimization
Pricing Conspicuous Consumption Products in Recession Periods with Uncertain Strength
Tony Huschto, Sebastian Sager

Nonlinear Optimization
Global convergence of trust-region algorithms for constrained minimization without derivatives
Paulo D. Conejo, Elizabeth W. Karas, Lucas G. Pedroso, Ademir A. Ribeiro, Mael Sachine

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Improved Bounds for RIC in Compressed Sensing
Shenglong Zhou, Lingchen Kong, Naihua Xiu, ,

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Iterative Reweighted Minimization Methods for $l_p$ Regularized Unconstrained Nonlinear Programming
Zhaosong Lu