All Areas Submissions - October 2011

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Linearized Alternating Direction Method with Gaussian Back Substitution for Separable Convex Programming
Bingsheng He, Xiaoming Yuan

Integer Programming
Derivative-free methods for constrained mixed-integer optimization
Giampaolo Liuzzi, Stefano Lucidi, Francesco Rinaldi

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An Adaptive Gradient Sampling Algorithm for Nonsmooth Optimization
Frank Curtis, Xiaocun Que

Global Optimization
Optimization over the Efficient Set of a Bicriteria Convex Programming Problem
Thi Bach Kim NGUYEN, Ngoc Thang TRAN

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Daily Scheduling of Nurses in Operating Suites
Arezou Mobasher, Gino Lim, Jonathan Bard, Victoria Jordan

Global Optimization
Approximate spectral factorization for design of efficient sub-filter sequences
Björn Norell, Oleg Burdakov, Mats Andersson, Hans Knutsson

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Correlative Sparsity Structures and Semidefinite Relaxations for Concave Cost Transportation Problems with Change of Variables
Tomohiko Mizutani, Makoto Yamashita

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Robust Rankings for College Football
Samuel Burer

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
A C++ application programming interface for biased random-key genetic algorithms
Rodrigo F. Toso, Mauricio G. C. Resende

Applications — Science and Engineering
Informatively optimal levels of confidence for mesurement uncertainty
David Kisets

Other Topics
A semi-discrete in time approximation for a model first order-finite horizon mean field game problem
F. Camilli, F. J. Silva

Combinatorial Optimization
Improved Bounds for Large Scale Capacitated Arc Routing Problem
Rafael Martinelli, Marcus Poggi, Anand Subramanian

Nonlinear Optimization
A robust Kantorovich's theorem on inexact Newton method with relative residual error tolerance
O. P. Ferreira, B. F. Svaiter

Other Topics
Characterization of local quadratic growth for strong minima in the optimal control of semi-linear elliptic equations
Terence BAYEN, J. Frédéric BONNANS, Francisco J. SILVA

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
A well-posed shooting algorithm for optimal control problems with singular arcs
M. Soledad Aronna, J. Frederic Bonnans, Pierre Martinon

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
Partially affine control problems: second order conditions and a well-posed shooting algorithm
M. Soledad Aronna

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Subdifferential of the conjugate function in general Banach spaces
Rafael Correa, Abderrahim Hantoute

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Partial Smoothness,Tilt Stability, and Generalized Hessians
Adrian Lewis, Shanshan Zhang

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A new robust cycle-based inventory control policy
Yupeng Chen, Garud Iyengar

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Improved lower bounds for the 2-page crossing numbers of K(m,n) and K(n) via semidefinite programming
Etienne De Klerk, Dmitrii V. Pasechnik

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Differentiable exact penalty functions for nonlinear second-order cone programs
Ellen H. Fukuda, Paulo J. S. Silva, Masao Fukushima

Stochastic Programming
Higher-Order Confidence Intervals for Stochastic Programming using Bootstrapping
Mihai Anitescu, Petra Cosmin

Other Topics
A Primal-Dual Algorithm for Computing a Cost Allocation in the Core of Economic Lot-Sizing Games
Mohan Gopaladesikan, Nelson A. Uhan, Jikai Zou

Integer Programming
How tight is the corner relaxation? Insights gained from the stable set problem
Gérard Cornuéjols, Carla Michini, Giacomo Nannicini

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A SIMPLE APPROACH TO OPTIMALITY CONDITIONS IN MINMAX PROGRAMMING
Alain B. Zemkoho

Applications — Science and Engineering
Deterministic Kalman Filtering on Semi-infinite Interval
Leonid Faybusovich, Thanasak Mouktonglang

Combinatorial Optimization
Optimal Toll Design: A Lower Bound Framework for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
Alejandro Toriello

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Modeling recreational systems using optimization techniques and information technologies
Oleg Shcherbina, Elena Shembeleva

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Customized proximal point algorithms for linearly constrained convex minimization and saddle-point problems: a uniform approach
Guoyong Gu, Bingsheng He, Xiaoming Yuan

Nonlinear Optimization
Regularized Sequential Quadratic Programing
Philip Gill, Daniel Robinson