All Areas Submissions - November 2018

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Sparse Mean-Reverting Portfolios via Penalized Likelihood Optimization
Jize Zhang, Tim Leung, Aleksandr Aravkin

Integer Programming
Improving the heuristic performance of Benders' decomposition
Stephen Maher

Combinatorial Optimization
On the use of the simplex method for a type of allocation problems
Yoshihiro Tanaka

Combinatorial Optimization
A fast exact algorithm for discrete resource allocation with nested constraints
Zeyang Wu, Qie He, Kameng Nip

Nonlinear Optimization
Proximal Gradient Method for Manifold Optimization
Shixiang Chen, Shiqian Ma, Anthony Man-Cho So, Tong Zhang

Integer Programming
n-step cutset inequalities: facets for multi-module capacitated network design problem
Haochen Luo, Kiavash Kianfar

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Stochastic Primal-Dual Method for Empirical Risk Minimization with O(1) Per-Iteration Complexity
Conghui Tan, Tong Zhang, Shiqian Ma, Ji Liu

Nonlinear Optimization
Sharp worst-case evaluation complexity bounds for arbitrary-order nonconvex optimization with inexpensive constraints
Coralia Cartis, Nick I. M. Gould, Philippe L. Toint

Robust Optimization
A Data-Driven Approach for Multi-Stage Linear Optimization
Dimitris Bertsimas, Shimrit Shtern, Bradley Sturt

Nonlinear Optimization
Inexact alternating projections on nonconvex sets
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Adrian S. Lewis

Applications — Science and Engineering
Nonmonotonicity and Quasiconvexity on Equilibrium Problems
Lennin Lennin Mallma R

Integer Programming
Pattern-based models and a cooperative parallel metaheuristic for high school timetabling problems
Landir Saviniec, Maristela O. Santos, Alysson M. Costa, Lana M. R. Santos

Integer Programming
Strong convex relaxations and mixed-integer programming formulations for trained neural networks
Ross Anderson, Joey Huchette, Christian Tjandraatmadja, Juan Pablo Vielma

Integer Programming
Strong Mixed-Integer Formulations for Power System Islanding and Restoration
Georgios Patsakis, Deepak Rajan, Ignacio Aravena, Shmuel Oren

Global Optimization
Deterministic upper bounds in global minimization with nonlinear equality constraints
Christian Füllner, Peter Kirst, Oliver Stein

Stochastic Programming
The policy graph decomposition of multistage stochastic optimization problems
Oscar Dowson

Robust Optimization
A Distributionally Robust Analysis of PERT
Ernst Roos, Dick den Hertog

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Geometric insights and proofs on optimal inventory control policies
ND van Foreest, OA Kilic

Applications — Science and Engineering
A Unified Framework for Sparse Relaxed Regularized Regression: SR3
Peng Zheng, Travis Askham, Steve Brunton, Nathan Kutz, Aleksandr Aravkin

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Gradient methods exploiting spectral properties
Yakui Huang, Yu-Hong Dai, Xin-Wei Liu

Nonlinear Optimization
Deterministic and stochastic inexact regularization algorithms for nonconvex optimization with optimal complexity
Stefania Bellavia, Gianmarco Gurioli, Benedetta Morini, Philippe L. Toint

Nonlinear Optimization
A class of derivative-free CG projection methods for nonsmooth equations with an application to the LASSO problem
min sun, maoying tian

Nonlinear Optimization
A globally and linearly convergent PGM for zero-norm regularized quadratic optimization with sphere constraint
Wu Yuqia, Pan Shaohua, Bi Shujun

Global Optimization
Feature selection in SVM via polyhedral k-norm
Manlio Gaudioso, Enrico Gorgone, Jean Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty

Combinatorial Optimization
A Tutorial on Formulating QUBO Models
Fred Glover, Gary Kochenberger

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A survey of semidefinite programming approaches to the generalized problem of moments and their error analysis
Etienne De Klerk, Monique Laurent

Integer Programming
Submodularity and valid inequalities in nonlinear optimization with indicator variables
Andres Gomez

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Potential of shared autonomous electric vehicles for reinforcing future urban microgrids
Mengyi Sha, Wei Qi, Shanling Li

Other Topics
On the extension of the Hager-Zhang conjugate gradient method for vector optimization
M. L. N. Gonçalves, L. F. Prudente

Integer Programming
Equivariant Perturbation in Gomory and Johnson's Infinite Group Problem. VII. Inverse semigroup theory, closures, decomposition of perturbations
Robert Hildebrand, Matthias Köppe, Yuan Zhou

Nonlinear Optimization
On the complexity of solving feasibility problems
L. F. Bueno, J. M. Martínez

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
On Mixed Integer Programming Formulations for the Unit Commitment Problem
Bernard Knueven, Jim Ostrowski, Jean Paul Watson

Integer Programming
A branch and price algorithm for the resource constrained home health care vehicle routing problem
Neda Tanoumand, Tonguç Ünlüyurt

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A new binary programming formulation and social choice property for expediting the solution to Kemeny ranking aggregation
Yeawon Yoo, Adolfo Escobedo

Integer Programming
Compact Disjunctive Approximations to Nonconvex Quadratically Constrained Programs
Hongbo Dong, Yunqi Luo

Integer Programming
Strong IP Formulations Need Large Coefficients
Christopher Hojny

Integer Programming
Chvatal rank in binary polynomial optimization
Alberto Del Pia, Silvia Di Gregorio

Global Optimization
On local non-global minimizers of quadratic optimization problem with a single quadratic constraint
Akram Taati, Maziar Salahi

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A new splitting method for monotone inclusions of three operators
dong yunda, yu xiaohuan

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A gradient type algorithm with backward inertial steps for a nonconvex minimization
Szilard Csaba Laszlo, Adrian Viorel, Cristian Alecsa

Nonlinear Optimization
Over-Parameterized Deep Neural Networks Have No Strict Local Minima For Any Continuous Activations
Dawei Li, Tian Ding, Ruoyu Sun

Nonlinear Optimization
A New Sequential Optimality Condition for Constrained Nonsmooth Optimization
Elias S. Helou, Sandra A. Santos, Lucas E. A. Simões

Robust Optimization
An Algorithmic Approach to Multiobjective Optimization with Decision Uncertainty
Gabriele Eichfelder, Julia Niebling, Stefan Rocktäschel

Integer Programming
A random search method for finding ‘K ≥ 2’ number of ranked optimal solution to an assignment problem
Santosh Kumar, Ali Al-Hasani, Masar Al-Rabeeah, Andrew Eberhard

Global Optimization
Selecting cutting planes for quadratic semidefinite outer-approximation via trained neural networks
Radu Baltean-Lugojan, Pierre Bonami, Ruth Misener, Andrea Tramontani

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Acceleration of Primal-Dual Methods by Preconditioning and Fixed Number of Inner Loops
Yanli Liu, Yunbei Xu, Wotao Yin

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Dynamic Mobile Production Capacity and Inventory Control Problem
Satya S. Malladi, Alan L. Erera, Chelsea C. White III

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Doubly Accelerated Inexact Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex Composite Optimization Problem
Jiaming Liang, Renato Monteiro

Integer Programming
Generating feasible points for mixed-integer convex optimization problems by inner parallel cuts
Christoph Neumann, Oliver Stein

Integer Programming
Sparse and Smooth Signal Estimation: Convexification of L0 Formulations
Alper Atamturk, Andres Gomez, Shaoning Han

Global Optimization
Packing Ovals In Optimized Regular Polygons
F.J. Kampas, J.D. Pintér, I. Castillo

Global Optimization
Largest Small n-Polygons: Numerical Results and Optimum Estimates
Janos Pinter

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Multi-component Maintenance Optimization: A Stochastic Programming Approach
Zhicheng Zhu, Yisha Xiang, Bo Zeng

Nonlinear Optimization
Basis Pursuit Denoise with Nonsmooth Constraints
Robert Baraldi, Rajiv Kumar, Aleksandr Aravkin

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The Impact of Potential-Based Physics Models on Pricing in Energy Networks
Lars Schewe, Martin Schmidt

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Enhancement on the Improved Recursive Method for Multi-objective Integer Programming Problem
Masar Al-Rabeeah, Ali Al-Hasani, Andrew Eberhard, Santosh Kumar, Elias Munapo

Robust Optimization
Robust Data-Driven Vehicle Routing with Time Windows
Yu Zhang, Zhenzhen Zhang, Andrew Lim, Melvyn Sim

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The Benefits of Transfers in Crowdsourced Pickup-and-Delivery Systems
Afonso Sampaio, Martin Savelsbergh, Lucas Veelenturf, Tom Van Woensel

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A specialized interior-point algorithm for huge minimum convex cost flows in bipartite networks
Jordi Castro, Stefano Nasini

Other Topics
Decomposition Methods for Solving Multi-model Markov Decision Processes
Lauren Steimle, Vinayak Ahluwalia, Charmee Kamdar, Brian Denton

Nonlinear Optimization
An almost cyclic 2-coordinate descent method for singly linearly constrained problems
Andrea Cristofari

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Multi-step discrete-time Zhang neural networks with application to time-varying nonlinear optimization
Sun Min, Tian Maoying, Wang Yiju