All Areas Submissions - November 2012

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
AN INEXACT PERTURBED PATH-FOLLOWING METHOD FOR LAGRANGIAN DECOMPOSITION IN LARGE-SCALE SEPARABLE CONVEX OPTIMIZATION
Quoc Tran Dinh, Ion Necoara, Carlo Savorgnan, Moritz Diehl

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY OF INEXACT GRADIENT AUGMENTED LAGRANGIAN METHODS: APPLICATION TO CONSTRAINED MPC
Valentin Nedelcu, Ion Necoara, Quoc Tran Dinh

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A random coordinate descent algorithm for optimization problems with composite objective function and linear coupled constraints
Ion Necoara, Andrei Patrascu

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Efficient parallel coordinate descent algorithm for convex optimization problems with separable constraints: application to distributed MPC
Ion Necoara, Dragos Clipici

Integer Programming
Using the primal-dual interior point algorithm within the branch-price-and-cut method
Pedro Munari, Jacek Gondzio

Stochastic Programming
Clustering-Based Interior-Point Strategies for Stochastic Programs
Victor M Zavala

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Convergence analysis for a primal-dual monotone + skew splitting algorithm with applications to total variation minimization
Radu Ioan Bot, Christopher Hendrich

Integer Programming
Solving mixed integer nonlinear programming problems for mine production planning with stockpiling
Andreas Bley, Natashia Boland, Gary Froyland, Mark Zuckerberg

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
The Slater condition is generic in linear conic programming
Mirjam Duer, Bolor Jargalsaikhan, Georg Still

Integer Programming
On the Relative Strength of Different Generalizations of Split Cuts
Sanjeeb Dash, Oktay Gunluk, Marco Molinaro

Stochastic Programming
Kullback-Leibler Divergence Constrained Distributionally Robust Optimization
Zhaolin Hu, Jeff Hong

Combinatorial Optimization
An extended approach for lifting clique tree inequalities
Anja Fischer, Frank Fischer

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Clarke subgradients for directionally Lipschitzian stratifiable functions
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Adrian Lewis, Alexander Ioffe

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Variational Properties of Value Functions
Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, James Y. Burke, Michael P. Friedlander

Nonlinear Optimization
The Generalized Trust Region Subproblem
Ting Kei Pong, Henry Wolkowicz

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Efficient Heuristic Algorithms for Maximum Utility Product Pricing Problems
T. G. J. Myklebust, M. A. Sharpe, Levent Tuncel

Stochastic Programming
Two methods of pruning Benders' cuts and their application to the management of a gas portfolio
Laurent Pfeiffer, Romain Apparigliato, Sophie Auchapt

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Note on “Multistage Methods for Freight Train Classification”
Dirk Briskorn, Florian Jaehn

Global Optimization
Branch-and-Sandwich: A Deterministic Global Optimization Algorithm for Optimistic Bilevel Programming Problems
Polyxeni-M. Kleniati, Claire S. Adjiman

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
THE PLANAR HUB LOCATION PROBLEM: A PROBABILISTIC CLUSTERING APPROACH
Cem Iyigun

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An improved formulation of the underground mine scheduling optimization problem when considering selective mining
Andreas Bley, S. E. Terblanche

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Parallel Coordinate Descent Methods for Big Data Optimization
Peter Richtarik, Martin Takac

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Convergence analysis of the Peaceman-Rachford splitting method for nonsmooth convex optimization
Deren Han, Xiaoming Yuan

Applications — Science and Engineering
Mixed-Integer Linear Methods for Layout-Optimization of Screening Systems in Recovered Paper Production
Armin Fügenschuh, Christine Hayn, Dennis Michaels

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Parallel Implementation of Successive Sparse SDP Relaxations for Large-scale Euclidean Distance Geometry Problems
Sunyoung Kim, Masakazu Kojima, Makoto Yamashita

Applications — Science and Engineering
Robustness Analysis of HottTopixx, a Linear Programming Model for Factoring Nonnegative Matrices
Nicolas Gillis

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A symmetric reduction of the NT direction
Florian Jarre, Chantal Hergenroeder

Applications — Science and Engineering
Validation of Nominations in Gas Network Optimization: Models, Methods, and Solutions
Marc Pfetsch, Armin Fügenschuh, Björn Geißler, Nina Geißler, Ralf Gollmer, Benjamin Hiller, Jesco Humpola, Thorsten Koch, Thomas Lehmann, Alexander Martin, Antonio Morsi, Jessica Rövekamp, Lars Schewe, Martin Schmidt, Rüdiger Schultz, Robert Schwarz, Jonas Schweiger, Claudia Stangl, Marc Steinbach, Stefan Vigerske, Bernhard Willert