All Areas Submissions - October 2018

Nonlinear Optimization
Parallelizable Algorithms for Optimization Problems with Orthogonality Constraints
Bin Gao, Xin Liu, Ya-xiang Yuan

Integer Programming
Decision Diagram Decomposition for Quadratically Constrained Binary Optimization
David Bergman, Leonaro Lozano

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Integer Models for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery
Ryan J. O'Neil, Karla Hoffman

Nonlinear Optimization
Global Solutions of Nonconvex Standard Quadratic Programs via Mixed Integer Linear Programming Reformulations
JACEK GONDZIO, E. ALPER YILDIRIM

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Two-stage stochastic days-off scheduling of multi-skilled analysts with training options
Doug Altner, Erica Mason, Les Servi

Stochastic Programming
Optimal Transport Based Distributionally Robust Optimization: Structural Properties and Iterative Schemes
Jose Blanchet, Karthyek Murthy, Fan Zhang

Nonlinear Optimization
Subset selection in sparse matrices
Alberto Del Pia, Santanu Dey, Robert Weismantel

Combinatorial Optimization
Mathematical models for stable matching problems with ties and incomplete lists
Maxence Delorme, Sergio García, Jacek Gondzio, Joerg Kalcsics, David Manlove, William Pettersson

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Low-M-Rank Tensor Completion and Robust Tensor PCA
Bo Jiang, Shiqian Ma, Shuzhong Zhang

Other Topics
Approximations for Pareto and Proper Pareto solutions and their KKT conditions
Poonam Kesarwani, Pradyumn Kumar Shukla, Joydeep Dutta, Kalyanmoy Deb deb

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Analysis of Process Flexibility Designs under Disruptions
Erfan Mehmanchi, Hoda Bidkhori, Oleg A. Prokopyev

Stochastic Programming
Stochastic Decomposition for Two-stage Stochastic Linear Programs with Random Cost Coefficients
Harsha Gangammanavar, Yifan Liu, Suvrajeet Sen

Robust Optimization
Robust Optimization of a Broad Class of Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problems under Demand Uncertainty
Anirudh Subramanyam, Panagiotis P. Repoussis, Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Tight-and-cheap conic relaxation for the optimal reactive power dispatch problem
Christian Bingane, Miguel F. Anjos, Sébastien Le Digabel

Nonlinear Optimization
Dynamic Optimization with Convergence Guarantees
M P Neuenhofen, E C Kerrigan

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming Models for Provisioning Cloud Computing Resources
Hazal Erol, Kerem Bulbul, Nilay Noyan

Integer Programming
Empirical Bounds on Linear Regions of Deep Rectifier Networks
Thiago Serra, Srikumar Ramalingam

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Decision Diagrams for Solving Traveling Salesman Problems with Pickup and Delivery in Real Time
Ryan J. O'Neil, Karla Hoffman

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
POLO: a POLicy-based Optimization library
Arda Aytekin, Martin Biel, Mikael Johansson

Stochastic Programming
On the Solution of Decision-Hazard Multistage Stochastic Hydrothermal Scheduling Problems
Alexandre Street, Andre Lawson, Davi Valladão, Alexandre Velloso

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Delay and disruption management at ATM: technical details
Federico Malucelli, Emanuele Tresoldi

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Exploiting Low-Rank Structure in Semidefinite Programming by Approximate Operator Splitting
Mario Souto, Joaquim Dias Garcia, Alvaro Veiga

Nonlinear Optimization
Non-monotone Inexact Restoration Method for nonlinear programming
Juliano B. Francisco, Douglas S. Gonçalves, Fermín S. V. Bazán, Lila L. T. Paredes

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Learning a Mixture of Gaussians via Mixed Integer Optimization
Hari Bandi, Dimitris Bertsimas, Rahul Mazumder

Nonlinear Optimization
A non-monotone Inexact Restoration approach for minimization with orthogonality constraints
Juliano B. Francisco, Douglas S. Gonçalves, Fermin S. V. Bazán, Lila L. T. Paredes

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Non-convex min-max fractional quadratic problems under quadratic constraints: copositive relaxations
Paula A. Amaral, Immanuel M. Bomze

Nonlinear Optimization
A Subsampling Line-Search Method with Second-Order Results
E. Bergou, Y. Diouane, V. Kungurtsev, C. W. Royer

Integer Programming
Resilient layout, design and operation of energy-efficient water distribution networks for high-rise buildings using MINLP
Lena C. Altherr, Philipp Leise, Marc E. Pfetsch, Andreas Schmitt

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Dynamic Courier Routing for a Food Delivery Service
Zachary Steever, Mark Karwan, Chase Murray

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Surgery Sequencing and Scheduling in Multiple ORs with PACU Capacity Constraints
Miao Bai, R.H. Storer, G.L. Tonkay

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Effectiveness of Surgical Scheduling Optimization: a Reinvestigation under the "To-Follow'' Practice and Perioperative Uncertainties
Miao Bai, R.H. Storer, G.L. Tonkay, T.E. Theman

Stochastic Programming
Scalable Branching on Dual Decomposition of Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming Problems
Kibaek Kim, Brian Dandurand

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Endogenous Price Zones and Investment Incentives in Electricity Markets: An Application of Multilevel Optimization with Graph Partitioning
Mirjam Ambrosius, Veronika Grimm, Thomas Kleinert, Frauke Liers, Martin Schmidt, Gregor Zöttl

Nonlinear Optimization
Convergence Rate Analysis of a Stochastic Trust Region Method via Supermartingales
Jose Blanchet, Coralia Cartis, Matt Menickelly, Katya Scheinberg

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Condition Number Analysis of Logistic Regression, and its Implications for Standard First-Order Solution Methods
Robert M. Freund, Paul Grigas, Rahul Mazumder

Nonlinear Optimization
On the Convergence to Stationary Points of Deterministic and Randomized Feasible Descent Directions Methods
Amir Beck, Nadav Hallak

Integer Programming
A convex integer programming approach for optimal sparse PCA
Santanu S. Dey, Rahul Mazumder, Guanyi Wang

Global Optimization
Understanding the Acceleration Phenomenon via High-Resolution Differential Equations
Bin Shi, Simon Du, Michael Jordan (Correspondence), Weijie Su (Correspondence)

Robust Optimization
Exploiting Partial Correlations in Distributionally Robust Optimization
Divya Padmanabhan, Karthik Natarajan, Karthyek R. A. Murthy

Applications — Science and Engineering
Global Convergence in Deep Learning with Variable Splitting via the Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz Property
J Zeng, S Ouyang, T Lau, S Lin, Y Yuan

Other Topics
PyMOSO: Software for Multi-Objective Simulation Optimization with R-PeRLE and R-MinRLE
Kyle Cooper, Susan Hunter

Stochastic Programming
Inexact cutting planes for two-stage mixed-integer stochastic programs
Ward Romeijnders, Niels van der Laan

Applications — Science and Engineering
On tradeoffs between treatment time and plan quality of volumetric-modulated arc therapy with sliding-window delivery
Lovisa Engberg, Anders Forsgren

Nonlinear Optimization
On limited-memory quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a quadratic function
David Ek, Anders Forsgren

Integer Programming
New Valid Inequalities for the Fixed-Charge and Single-Node Flow Polytopes
Adam N. Letchford, Georgia Souli

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Variational analysis perspective on linear convergence of some first order methods for nonsmooth convex optimization problems
Ye Jane , Xiaoming Yuan, Shangzhi Zeng, Jin Zhang

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Discerning the linear convergence of ADMM for structured convex optimization through the lens of variational analysis
Xiaoming Yuan, Shangzhi Zeng, Jin Zhang

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Interval-based Dynamic Discretization Discovery for Solving the Continuous-Time Service Network Design Problem
Luke Marshall, Natashia Boland, Martin Savelsbergh, Mike Hewitt

Stochastic Programming
Bounds for Probabilistic Constrained Problems
Shen Peng, Abdel Lisser, Francesca Maggioni

Applications — Science and Engineering
Data-Driven Maintenance and Operations Scheduling in Power Systems under Decision-Dependent Uncertainty
Beste Basciftci, Shabbir Ahmed, Nagi Gebraeel

Combinatorial Optimization
An Efficient Linear Programming Based Method for the Influence Maximization Problem in Social Networks
Evren Güney

Other Topics
Performance indicators in multiobjective optimization
Charles Audet, Jean Bigeon, Dominique Cartier, Sebastien Le Digabel, Ludovic Salomon

Nonlinear Optimization
Numerical Solution of Optimal Control Problems with Switches, Switching Costs and Jumps
Christian Kirches, Ekaterina Kostina, Andreas Meyer, Matthias Schlöder

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Solving Non-Smooth Semi-Linear Optimal Control Problems with Abs-Linearization
Olga Ebel, Andrea Walther, Stephan Schmidt

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Robust Multi-product Newsvendor Model with Substitution under Cardinality-constrained Uncertainty Set
Zhang Jie, Weijun Xie

Applications — Science and Engineering
Towards Resilient Operation of Multi-Microgrids: An MISOCP-Based Frequency-Constrained Approach
Amin Gholami, Xu Andy Sun

Integer Programming
The Gap Function: Evaluating Integer Programming Models over Multiple Right-hand Sides
Temitayo Ajayi, Christopher Thomas, Andrew Schaefer

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An Online-Learning Approach to Inverse Optimization
Andreas Bärmann, Alexander Martin, Sebastian Pokutta, Oskar Schneider

Stochastic Programming
Asynchronous Projective Hedging for Stochastic Programming
Jonathan Eckstein, Jean-Paul Watson, David L. Woodruff

Integer Programming
An Exact Algorithm for the Dynamic Knapsack Problem with Stochastic Item Sizes
Daniel Blado, Alejandro Toriello

Robust Optimization
Min max (relative) set-regret combinatorial optimization
Alejandro Crema Crema

Integer Programming
A scalable algorithm for sparse and robust portfolios
Dimitris Bertsimas, Ryan Cory-Wright