All Areas Submissions - November 2005

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
TTTPLOTS: A perl program to create time-to-target plots
Renata M. Aiex, Mauricio G. C. Resende, Celso C. Ribeiro

Nonlinear Optimization
Primal interior-point method for large sparse minimax optimization.
Ladislav Luksan, Ctirad Matonoha, Jan Vlcek

Nonlinear Optimization
Trust-region interior-point method for large sparse l_1 optimization.
Ladislav Luksan, Ctirad Matonoha, Jan Vlcek

Nonlinear Optimization
Interior-Point Methods for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming: Regularization and Warmstarts
H.Y. Benson, D.F. Shanno

Integer Programming
An algorithmic framework for convex mixed integer nonlinear programs
Pierre Bonami, Lorenz Biegler, Andrew Conn, Gerard Cornuejols, Ignacio Grossmann, Carl Laird, Jon Lee, Andrea Lodi, Francois Margot, Nicolas Sawaya, Andreas Waechter

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
MW: A Software Framework for Combinatorial Optimization on Computational Grids
Wasu Glankwamdee, Jeff Linderoth

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
MIP-based heuristics for multi-item capacitated lot-sizing problem with setup times and shortage costs
ABSI Nabil, Kedad-Sidhoum Safia

Stochastic Programming
Reducing Bias in Stochastic Linear Programming with Sampling Methods
Michael Freimer, Doug Thomas, Jeff Linderoth

Applications — Science and Engineering
A Semidefinite Programming Approach to the Steady-State Analysis of Queueing Systems
Dimitris Bertsimas, Karthik Natarajan

Nonlinear Optimization
An efficient conjugate direction method with orthogonalization for large-scale quadratic optimization problems
Edouard Boudinov, Arkadiy Manevich

Global Optimization
Societal Implicit Memory and his Speed on Tracking Extrema over Dynamic Environments using Self-Regulatory Swarms
Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The multiple-sets split feasibility problem and its applications for inverse problems
Yair Censor, Tommy Elfving, Nirit Kopf, Thomas Bortfeld

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A conic interior point decomposition approach for large scale semidefinite programming
Kartik Krishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Gema Plaza, Tamas Terlaky

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Using mixed-integer programming to solve power grid blackout problems
Daniel Bienstock, Sara Mattia

Other Topics
The Efficient Outcome Set of a Bi-criteria Linear Programming and Application
Bach Kim Nguyen Thi, Minh Hue Nguyen Thi, Phan Vu Dao

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Stationarity and Regularity of Real-Valued Functions
Alexander Kruger