All Areas Submissions - November 2017

Other Topics
Generalized Dual Dynamic Programming for Infinite Horizon Problems in Continuous State and Action Spaces
Joseph Warrington, Paul Beuchat, John Lygeros

Global Optimization
A Customized Branch-and-Bound Approach for Irregular Shape Nesting
Akang Wang, Christopher L. Hanselman , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

Integer Programming
Probabilistic Variational Formulation of Binary Programming
Arturo Berrones, Jonás Velasco, Juan Banda

Integer Programming
A partial outer convexification approach to control transmission lines
Simone Goettlich, Andreas Potschka, Claus Teuber

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Weak Stability of $\ell_1$-minimization Methods in Sparse Data Reconstruction
Y.B. Zhao, H. Jiang, Z.Q. Luo

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Characterizing and testing subdifferential regularity for piecewise smooth objective functions
Andrea Walther, Andreas Griewank

Robust Optimization
The robust stabilization problem for discrete-time descriptor systems
Claudiu Dinicu

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The Max-Cut Polytope, the Unit Modulus Lifting, and their set-completely-positive representations
Florian Jarre, Felix Lieder, Ya-Feng Liu, Cheng Lu

Nonlinear Optimization
The extensions of Yuan’s lemma and applications in S-lemma
Yang Qinzhi, Zhou Yang, Wang Zhongwen

Stochastic Programming
Bayesian Solution Estimators in Stochastic Optimization
Danial Davarnia, Burak Kocuk, Gerard Cornuejols

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Adaptive Middle Proximal ADMM for Multi-block Separable Convex Programming
Jianchao Bai

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The nonsmooth landscape of phase retrieval
Damek Davis, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Courtney Paquette

Stochastic Programming
DASC: a Decomposition Algorithm for multistage stochastic programs with Strongly Convex cost functions
Vincent Guigues

Stochastic Programming
Two-stage stochastic programming model for routing multiple drones with fuel constraints
Saravanan Venkatachalam, Kaarthik Sundar, Sivakumar Rathinam

Other Topics
Meta-Modeling to Assess the Possible Future of Paris Agreement
F Babonneau, A Bernard, A Haurie, M Vielle

Nonlinear Optimization
On the use of third-order models with fourth-order regularization for unconstrained optimization
E. G. Birgin, J. L. Gardenghi, J. M. Martínez, S. A. Santos

Nonlinear Optimization
An Accelerated Communication-Efficient Primal-Dual Optimization Framework for Structured Machine Learning
Chenxin Ma, Martin Jaggi, Frank E Curtis, Nathan Srebro, Martin Takac

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Adaptive Fista
Peter Ochs, Thomas Pock

Nonlinear Optimization
Nonoverlapping Domain Decomposition for Optimal Control Problems governed by Semilinear Models for Gas Flow in Networks
Günter Leugering, Alexander Martin, Martin Schmidt, Mathias Sirvent

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Relaxing kink qualifications and proving convergence rates in piecewise smooth optimization
Andreas Griewank, Andrea Walther

Integer Programming
The Strength of Multi-row Aggregation Cuts for Sign-pattern Integer Programs
Santanu S. Dey, Andres Iroume, Guanyi Wang

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Mixed integer formulations for a coupled lot-scheduling and vehicle routing problem in furniture settings
Pedro L. Miranda, Reinaldo Morabito, Deisemara Ferreira

Integer Programming
A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for Capacitated Hypergraph Vertex Separation
Michael Bastubbe, Marco E. Lübbecke

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Nonconvex Equilibrium Models for Gas Market Analysis: Failure of Standard Techniques and Alternative Modeling Approaches
Veronika Grimm, Julia Grübel, Lars Schewe, Martin Schmidt, Gregor Zöttl

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Unifying abstract inexact convergence theorems and block coordinate variable metric iPiano
Peter Ochs

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Uniqueness of Market Equilibria on Networks with Transport Costs
Vanessa Krebs, Martin Schmidt

Nonlinear Optimization
Accelerating block coordinate descent methods with identification strategies
Ronaldo Lopes, Sandra Augusta Santos, Paulo J. S. Silva

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
On the Convergence Rate of the Halpern-Iteration
Felix Lieder

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Approximations to Stochastic Dynamic Programs via Information Relaxation Duality
Santiago Balseiro, David Brown

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Global Optimisation of Multi-Plant Manganese Alloy Production
Martin Digernes, Lars Rudi, Henrik Andersson, Magnus Stålhane, Stein Wasbø, Brage Rugstad Knudsen

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Convergent Prediction-Correction-based ADMM for multi-block separable convex programming
Chang Xiaokai, Liu Sanyang, Zhao Pengjun , Li Xu

Stochastic Programming
Multi-objective risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming problems
Cagin Ararat, Ozlem Cavus, Ali Irfan Mahmutogullari

Stochastic Programming
Optimization of Stochastic Problems with Probability Functions via Differential Evolution
Bayrammyrat Myradov

Stochastic Programming
Variational inequality formulation for the games with random payoffs
Vikas Vikram Singh, Abdel Lisser

Nonlinear Optimization
Block Coordinate Descent Almost Surely Converges to a Stationary Point Satisfying the Second-order Necessary Condition
Enbin Song, Zhubin Shen, Qingjiang Shi

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Algorithms for the One-Dimensional Two-Stage Cutting Stock Problem
Ibrahim Muter, Zeynep Sezer

Nonlinear Optimization
A note on using performance and data profiles for training algorithms
Margherita Porcelli, Philippe L. Toint

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Crowd-based City Logistics
Afonso Sampaio, Martin Savelsbergh, Lucas Veelenturf, Tom Van Woensel

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Generalized Three-Operator Splitting Algorithm for Convex Quadratic Semidefinite Programming with Nonnegative Constraints
Chang Xiaokai, Liu Sanyang, Deng Zhao, Ze Zexian

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Amenable cones: error bounds without constraint qualifications
Bruno F. Lourenco

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Random Gradient Extrapolation for Distributed and Stochastic Optimization
Guanghui Lan, Yi Zhou

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Analysis of the Gradient Method with an Armijo-Wolfe Line Search on a Class of Nonsmooth Convex Functions
Azam Asl, Michael L. Overton

Robust Optimization
Bootstrap Robust Prescriptive Analytics
Dimitris Bertsimas, Bart Paul Gerard Van Parys

Nonlinear Optimization
On local non-global minimizers of quadratic functions with cubic regularization
Andrea Cristofari, Tayebeh Dehghan Niri, Stefano Lucidi

Applications — Science and Engineering
Efficient Convex Optimization for Linear MPC
Stephen J. Wright

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Linear Convergence Rate of the Generalized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for a Class of Convex Optimization Problems
Peng Jianwen, Zhang Xueqing

Stochastic Programming
An algorithm for binary chance-constrained problems using IIS
Gianpiero Canessa, Julián Gallego, Lewis Ntaimo, Bernardo Pagnoncelli

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Iteration complexity of an inexact Douglas-Rachford method and of a Douglas-Rachford-Tseng's F-B four-operator splitting method for solving monotone inclusions
M. Marques Alves, Marina Geremia