All Areas Submissions - October 2013

Network Optimization
Optimization Models for Differentiating Quality of Service Levels in Probabilistic Network Capacity Design Problems
Siqian Shen, Zhihao Chen

Nonlinear Optimization
Constant rank constraint qualifications: a geometric introduction
Roberto Andreani, Paulo J. S. Silva

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Regenerators as Hubs
Baris Yildiz, Oya Ekin Karasan

Stochastic Programming
Time Consistency Versus Law Invariance in Multistage Stochastic Optimization with Coherent Risk Measures: Multilevel Optimization Modeling and Computational Complexity
Jonathan Eckstein

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Dynamic Linear Production Games under Uncertainty
Alejandro Toriello, Nelson A. Uhan

Stochastic Programming
Optimal scenario set partitioning for multistage stochastic programming with the progressive hedging algorithm
Pierre-Luc Carpentier, Michel Gendreau, Fabian Bastin

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Conic Geometric Programming
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Parikshit Shah

Applications — Science and Engineering
Reactive Power Management using Firefly and Spiral Optimization under Static and Dynamic Loading Conditions
Ripunjoy Phukan

Applications — Science and Engineering
FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF A HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE USING WAVEFORM MATCHING APPROACH
Ripunjoy Phukan

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Accelerated Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear and Stochastic Programming
Saeed Ghadimi, Guanghui Lan

Integer Programming
Mathematical Programming: Turing completeness and applications to software analysis
Leo Liberti, Fabrizio Marinelli

Applications — Science and Engineering
Semidefinite Programming Based Preconditioning for More Robust Near-Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Nicolas Gillis, Stephen A. Vavasis

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Minimizing Value-at-Risk in Single-Machine Scheduling
Semih Atakan, Kerem Bulbul, Nilay Noyan

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Lagrangian-DNN Relaxation: a Fast Method for Computing Tight Lower Bounds for a Class of Quadratic Optimization Problems
Sunyoung Kim, Masakazu Kojima, Kim-Chuan Toh

Nonlinear Optimization
The divergence of the BFGS and the Gauss Newton Methods
Walter F. Mascarenhas

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Gauge optimization, duality, and applications
M. P. Friedlander, I. Macedo, T. K. Pong

Integer Programming
Polyhedron Flatness as an explanatory variable for Branch and Bound algorithm computational effort
Ivan Derpich, Carlos Herrera

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
PEBBL: An Object-Oriented Framework for Scalable Parallel Branch and Bound
Jonathan Eckstein, William E. Hart, Cynthia A. Phillips

Applications — Science and Engineering
Conic separation of finite sets:The homogeneous case
Annabella Astorino, Manlio Gaudioso, Alberto Seeger

Applications — Science and Engineering
Conic separation of finite sets: The non-homogeneous case
Annabella Astorino, Manlio Gaudioso, Alberto Seeger

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Integrated Service System Staffing and Scheduling via Stochastic Integer Programming
Merve Bodur, James Luedtke

Other Topics
Information Relaxations, Duality, and Convex Dynamic Programs
David Brown, James Smith

Integer Programming
Strongly Agree or Strongly Disagree?: Rating Features in Support Vector Machines
Emilio Carrizosa, Amaya Nogales-Gomez, Dolores Romero Morales

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
On the irreducibility, Lyapunov rank, and automorphisms of speical Bishop-Phelps cones
M. Seetharama Gowda, David Trott

Nonlinear Optimization
An Active-Set Quadratic Programming Method Based On Sequential Hot-Starts
Travis C Johnson, Christian Kirches, Andreas Wächter

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Computing a Cournot Equilibrium in Integers
Michael Todd

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Price of Anarchy for Non-atomic Congestion Games with Stochastic Demands
Chenlan Wang, Xuan Vinh Doan, Bo Chen

Nonlinear Optimization
Quasi-Newton updates with weighted secant equations
Serge Gratton, Vincent Malmedy, Philippe L. Toint

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Bundle methods in the XXIst century: A bird's-eye view
Welington de Oliveira, Claudia Sagastizábal

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Least-squares approach to risk parity in portfolio selection
Xi Bai, Katya Scheinberg, Reha Tütüncü

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
About [q]-regularity properties of collections of sets
Alexander Y. Kruger, Nguyen H. Thao

Global Optimization
Completely Positive Reformulations for Polynomial Optimization
Javier Pena, Juan C. Vera, Luis F. Zuluaga

Global Optimization
GLODS: Global and Local Optimization using Direct Search
A. L. Custodio, J. F. A. Madeira

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Iteration-Complexity of a Generalized Forward Backward Splitting Algorithm
Jingwei Liang, Jalal Fadili, Gabriel Peyré

Integer Programming
The bound-optimal cutting plane method: a new paradigm for cutting plane generation
Stefano Coniglio, Martin Tieves

Nonlinear Optimization
A feasible active set method for convex problems with simple bounds
Philipp Hungerländer, Franz Rendl

Integer Programming
Bin Packing and Related Problems: General Arc-flow Formulation with Graph Compression
Filipe Brandão, João Pedro Pedroso

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On the Convergence of Decentralized Gradient Descent
Kun Yuna, Qing Ling, Wotao Yin

Nonlinear Optimization
An efficient gradient method using the Yuan steplength
Roberta De Asmundis, Daniela di Serafino, Gerardo Toraldo

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Fast implementation for semidefinite programs with positive matrix completion
Makoto Yamashita, Kazuide Nakata

Robust Optimization
Robust Data-Driven Dynamic Programming
Grani A. Hanasusanto, Daniel Kuhn

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Accelerating block-decomposition first-order methods for solving generalized saddle-point and Nash equilibrium problems
Yunlong He, Renato D.C. Monteiro

Nonlinear Optimization
A Regularized SQP Method with Convergence to Second-Order Optimal Points
Philip E. Gill, Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Daniel P. Robinson

Nonlinear Optimization
Finding Diverse Solutions of High Quality to Binary Integer Programs
Andrew C. Trapp, Renata A. Konrad