All Areas Submissions - September 2015

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An Improved MIP Formulation for the Unit Commitment Problem
Semih Atakan, Guglielmo Lulli, Suvrajeet Sen

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
Remark on multi-target,robust linear-quadratic control problem on semi-infinite interval
Leonid Faybusovich, Thanasak Mouktonglang

Nonlinear Optimization
Variational Principles and Completeness in Pseudo-Quasimetric Spaces
Bao Q. Truong, Antoine Soubeyran

Nonlinear Optimization
Newton-like method with diagonal correction for distributed optimization
Dragana Bajovic, Dusan Jakovetic, Natasa Krejic, Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
A new explicit iterative algorithm for solving split variational inclusion and fixed point problem for the infinite family of nonexpansive operators
Cuijie Zhang, Zhihui Xu

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Stochastic Programming Approach for Shelter Location and Evacuation Planning
Vedat Bayram, Hande Yaman

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Local maximality and full stability for parametric variational systems
Boris Mordukhovich, Tran Nghia

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
A Practical Scheme to Compute Pessimistic Bilevel Optimization Problem
Bo Zeng

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Strong Duality: Without Simplex and without theorems of alternatives
Somdeb Lahiri

Other Topics
Solving linear generalized Nash equilibrium problems numerically
Axel Dreves, Nathan Sudermann-Merx

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Variational Analysis and Applications to Group Dynamics
T.Q. Bao, A. Soubeyran

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Regularized HPE-type methods for solving monotone inclusions with improved pointwise iteration-complexity bounds
Maicon Marques Alves, Renato D.C. Monteiro, Benar F. Svaiter

Applications — Science and Engineering
A basis-free null space method for solving generalized saddle point problems
Douglas Mendes, Maria A. Diniz-Ehrhardt, Lucas G. Pedroso

Applications — Science and Engineering
Construction of IMEX DIMSIMs of high order and stage order
Z. Jackiewicz, H.D. Mittelmann

Integer Programming
Solving MIPs via Scaling-based Augmentation
Pierre Le Bodic, Jeffrey W. Pavelka, Marc E. Pfetsch, Sebastian Pokutta

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Linear conic formulations for two-party correlations and values of nonlocal games
Jamie Sikora, Antonios Varvitsiotis

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Constrained Minkowski Sums of Polyhedra with an Application in Unit Commitment
Ben Knueven, Jim Ostrowski, Jianhui Wang

Stochastic Programming
Parallel Non-Stationary Direct Policy Search for Risk Averse Stochastic Optimization
Somayeh Moazeni, Warren Powell, Boris Defourny, Belgacem Bouzaiene-Ayari

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Simple Approximations of Semialgebraic Sets and their Applications to Control
Fabrizio Dabbene, Didier Henrion, Constantino Lagoa

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Quantitative Comparison of Risk Measures
Alois Pichler

Nonlinear Optimization
Sequential equality-constrained optimization for nonlinear programming
E. G. Birgin, L. F. Bueno, J. M. Martinez

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Solving conic optimization problems via self-dual embedding and facial reduction: a unified approach
Permenter Frank, Henrik A. Friberg, Erling D. Andersen

Robust Optimization
The impact of the existence of multiple adjustable robust solutions
Frans J.C.T. de Ruiter, Ruud C.M. Brekelmans, Dick den Hertog

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Robust Sensitivity Analysis of the Optimal Value of Linear Programming
Guanglin Xu, Samuel Burer

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
New Computational Guarantees for Solving Convex Optimization Problems with First Order Methods, via a Function Growth Condition Measure
Robert M. Freund, Haihao Lu

Combinatorial Optimization
Algorithms for the power-$p$ Steiner tree problem in the Euclidean plane
Christina Burt, Alysson Costa, Charl Ras

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Weak Infeasibility in Second Order Cone Programming
Bruno F. Lourenco, Masakazu Muramatsu, Takashi Tsuchiya

Robust Optimization
Quantitative Stability Analysis for Distributionally Robust Optimization With Moment Constraints
Jie Zhang, Hui-fu Xu, Li-wei Zhang

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Examples with Decreasing Largest Inscribed Ball for Deterministic Rescaling Algorithms
Dan Li, Tamás Terlaky

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A polynomial primal-dual affine scaling algorithm for symmetric conic optimization
Ali Mohammad-Nezhad, Tamas Terlaky

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An accelerated non-Euclidean hybrid proximal extragradient-type Algorithm for convex-concave saddle-point Problems
Oliver Kolossoski, Renato Monteiro

Applications — Science and Engineering
Quantitative recovery conditions for tree-based compressed sensing
Coralia Cartis, Andrew Thompson

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Improving Public Transport Accessibility via Provision of a Dial-a-Ride Shuttle-Bus Service, Incorporating Passenger Travel-Mode Heterogeneity
Michelle Dunbar, Amirah Rahman

Integer Programming
Divisive heuristic for modularity density maximization
Alberto Costa, Sergey Kushnarev, Leo Liberti, Zeyu Sun

Combinatorial Optimization
Detecting Almost Symmetries of Graphs
Ben Knueven, Jim Ostrowski, Sebastian Pokutta

Stochastic Programming
Tight second-stage formulations in two-stage stochastic mixed integer programs
Manish Bansal, Kuo-Ling Huang, Sanjay Mehrotra

Robust Optimization
Stability Analysis for Mathematical Programs with Distributionally Robust Chance Constraint
Shaoyan Guo, Huifu Xu, Liwei Zhang

Stochastic Programming
Existence of Nash equilibrium for distributionally robust chance-constrained games
Vikas Vikram Singh, Oualid Jouini, Abdel Lisser

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Controlled Markov Chains with AVaR Criteria for Unbounded Costs
Kerem Ugurlu

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The Power Edge Set problem
Pierre-Louis Poirion, Sonia Toubaline, Claudia D'Ambrosio, Leo Liberti

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Degeneracy in Maximal Clique Decomposition for Semidefinite Programs
Arvind Raghunathan, Andrew Knyazev

Integer Programming
A Study of Three-Period Ramp-Up Polytope
Sheng Liu, Deepak Rajan

Combinatorial Optimization
Location Routing Problems on Simple Graphs
Julian Araoz, Elena Fernandez, Salvador Rueda

Other Topics
Strong slopes of a vector-valued map and applications in the study of error bounds, weak sharp minima and calmness
Xuan Duc Ha Truong

Nonlinear Optimization
A Nonmonotone Projected Gradient Method for Optimization over Sparse Symmetric Sets
Zhaosong Lu

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On Cournot-Nash-Walras equilibria and their computation
Jiri V. Outrata, Michael C. Ferris, Michal Cervinka, Michal Outrata

Robust Optimization
Adaptive Elective Surgery Planning Under Duration and Length-Of-Stay Uncertainty: A Robust Optimization Approach
Saba Neyshabouri, Bjorn Berg

Nonlinear Optimization
Manifold Sampling for L1 Nonconvex Optimization
Jeffrey Larson, Matt Menickelly, Stefan Wild

Robust Optimization
Distributionally Robust Logistic Regression
Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Daniel Kuhn

Integer Programming
A new lift-and-project operator
Merve Bodur, Sanjeeb Dash, Oktay Gunluk