All Areas Submissions - October 2006

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A Q-Learning Algorithm with Continuous State Space
Kengy Barty, Pierre Girardeau, Jean-Sebastien Roy, Cyrille Strugarek

Other Topics
An Adaptive Primal-Dual Warm-Start Technique for Quadratic Multiobjective Optimization
Daniel Molz, Christoph Heermann, Joerg Fliege

Combinatorial Optimization
Polyhedral combinatorics of a resource-constrained ordering problem part I: on the partial linear ordering polytope
Renaud Sirdey, Hervé Kerivin

Combinatorial Optimization
Polyhedral combinatorics of a resource-constrained ordering problem part II: on the process move program polytope
Hervé Kerivin, Renaud Sirdey

Stochastic Programming
Asymptotics of minimax stochastic programs
Alexander Shapiro

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Heuristic Approach for Big Bucket Production Planning Problems
Kerem Akartunali, Andrew J. Miller

Applications — Science and Engineering
A Penalized Trimmed Squares Method for Deleting Outliers in Robust Regression
George Zioutas, Antonis Avramidis, Leonidas Pitsoulis

Robust Optimization
On Safe Tractable Approximations of Chance Constrained Linear Matrix Inequalities
Aharon Ben-Tal, Arkadi Nemirovski

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Lyusternik theorem and regularity of collections of sets
Andrei V. Dmitruk, Alexander Ya. Kruger

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A New Class of Interior Proximal Methods for Optimization over the Positive Orthant
Sissy da S. Souza, P. Roberto Oliveira

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
On the Second-Order Feasibility Cone: Primal-Dual Representation and Efficient Projection
Alexandre Belloni, Robert M. Freund

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
An Efficient Re-scaled Perceptron Algorithm for Conic Systems
Alexandre Belloni, Robert M. Freund, Santosh Vempala

Nonlinear Optimization
A Brief History of Filter Methods
R Fletcher, S. Leyffer, Ph. T. Toint

Integer Programming
Lookahead Branching for Mixed Integer Programming
Wasu Glankwamdee, Jeff Linderoth

Applications — Science and Engineering
Iterative Solution Methods for Beam Angle and Fluence Map Optimization in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Planning
G.J. Lim, J Choi, Radhe Mohan

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A hybrid heuristic for the constrained two-dimensional non-guillotine orthogonal cutting problem
José F. Gonçalves, Mauricio G. C. Resende

Integer Programming
On the complexity of cutting plane proofs using split cuts
Sanjeeb Dash

Applications — Science and Engineering
Computing nonnegative tensor factorizations
Michael P. Friedlander, Kathrin Hatz

Applications — Science and Engineering
A continuous GRASP to determine the relationship between drugs and adverse reactions
M. J. Hirsch, C. N. Meneses, P. M. Pardalos, M. A. Ragle, M. G. C. Resende

Combinatorial Optimization
New descriptions of the Lovász number and a Brooks-type theorem
Ujvári Miklós

Nonlinear Optimization
Simplex-type algorithm for optimizing a pseudolinear quadratic fractional function over a polytope
Ujvári Miklós

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Simpler and Tighter Redundant Klee-Minty Construction
Eissa Nematollahi, Tamas Terlaky

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Consistency of robust portfolio estimators
Katrin Schöttle, Ralf Werner

Integer Programming
Approximate formulations for 0-1 knapsack sets
Daniel Bienstock

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
On the Copositive Representation of Binary and Continuous Nonconvex Quadratic Programs
Samuel Burer

Combinatorial Optimization
Copositive and Semidefinite Relaxations of the Quadratic Assignment Problem
Janez Povh, Franz Rendl

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An integer programming approach to the OSPF weight setting problem
Amandeep Parmar, Shabbir Ahmed, Joel Sokol

Nonlinear Optimization
Global Convergence of General Derivative-Free Trust-Region Algorithms to First and Second Order Critical Points
A. R. Conn, K. Scheinberg, L. N. Vicente

Nonlinear Optimization
Using Simplex Gradients of Nonsmooth Functions in Direct Search Methods
A. L. Custódio, J. E. Dennis, L. N. Vicente

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Matrix-lifting Semidefinite Relaxation for the Quadratic Assignment Problem
Yichuan Ding, Henry Wolkowicz

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Semidefinite programming, multivariate orthogonal polynomials, and codes in spherical caps
Christine Bachoc, Frank Vallentin

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
What Multistage Stochastic Programming Can Do for Network Revenue Management
Victor DeMiguel, Nishant Mishra