All Areas Submissions - October 2002

Combinatorial Optimization
Facets of a polyhedron closely related to the integer knapsack-cover problem
David R. Mazur, Leslie A. Hall

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Scheduling a sequence of tasks with general completion costs
Francis Sourd

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The continuous assignment problem and its application to preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling with irregular cost functions
Francis Sourd

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Hierarchical Network Design Using Simulated Annealing
Tommy Thomadsen, Jens Clausen

Combinatorial Optimization
STRONG LOWER BOUNDS FOR THE PRIZE COLLECTING STEINER PROBLEM IN GRAPHS
Abilio Lucena, Mauricio G. C. Resende

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
SDPARA : SemiDefinite Programming Algorithm PARAllel Version
M Yamashita, K Fujisawa, M Kojima

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Optimal Portfolios using Linear Programming Models
Christos Papahristodoulou

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Optimisation of physical and financial power purchase portfolios
Gorden Spangardt, Michael Lucht, Wilhelm Althaus

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
CSDP 5.0 User's Guide
Brian Borchers

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
''Cone-Free'' Primal-Dual Path-Following and Potential Reduction Polynomial Time Interior-Point Methods
Arkadi Nemirovski, Levent Tuncel

Nonlinear Optimization
On the superlinear local convergence of a filter-SQP method
Stefan Ulbrich

Applications — Science and Engineering
The Thirteen Spheres: A New Proof
K.M. Anstreicher

Nonlinear Optimization
A Simple Primal-Dual Feasible Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Programming with Monotone Descent
Sasan Bakhtiari, Andre L. Tits

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A hybrid genetic algorithm for manufacturing cell formation
José F. Gonçalves, Mauricio G. C. Resende

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Using selective orthonormalization to update the analytic center after the addition of multiple cuts
John E Mitchell, Srinivasan Ramaswamy

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A new iteration-complexity bound for the MTY predictor-corrector algorithm
Renato D. C. Monteiro, Takashi Tsuchiya

Applications — Science and Engineering
Optimal Magnetic Shield Design with Second-Order Cone Programming
Takashi Sasakawa, Takashi Tsuchiya

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Conic Programming Approach to Generalized Tchebycheff Inequalities
Luis Zuluaga, Javier Pena