All Areas Submissions - December 2005

Global Optimization
On Ants, Bacteria and Dynamic Environments
Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa

Global Optimization
On Self-Regulated Swarms, Societal Memory, Speed and Dynamics
Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa

Combinatorial Optimization
Comparing Imperfection Ratio and Imperfection Index for Graph Classes
Arie M.C.A. Koster, Annegret K. Wagler

Combinatorial Optimization
Set covering and packing formulations of graph coloring: algorithms and first polyhedral results
Pierre Hansen, Martine Labbé, David Schindl

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Prox-Regularity and Stability of the Proximal Mapping
Warren L. Hare, R. A. Poliquin

Nonlinear Optimization
An interior Newton-like method for nonnegative least-squares problems with degenerate solution
Stefania Bellavia, Maria Macconi, Benedetta Morini

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
An LMI description for the cone of Lorentz-positive maps
Roland Hildebrand

Applications — Science and Engineering
The Application of an Oblique-Projected Landweber Method to a Model of Supervised Learning
Bjorn Johansson, Tommy Elfving, Vladimir Kozlov, Yair Censor, Per-Erik Forssen, Gosta Granlund

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
The perceptron-rescaling algorithm for symmetric cone optimization
Imre Pólik, Tamás Terlaky

Combinatorial Optimization
Alternative Formulation for the p-median Problem
Sourour Elloumi

Stochastic Programming
Uniform Laws of Large Numbers for Set-Valued Mappings and Subdifferentials of Random Functions
Alexander Shapiro, Huifu Xu

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Coherent Risk Measures in Inventory Problems
Shabbir Ahmed, Ulas Cakmak, Alexander Shapiro

Combinatorial Optimization
A counterexample to a conjecture of Laurent and Poljak
Antoine Deza, Gabriel Indik

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Approximating the Chromatic Number of a Graph by Semidefinite Programming
Nebojsa Gvozdenovic, Monique Laurent

Applications — Science and Engineering
Optimization of Flexural capacity of Reinforced fibrous Concrete Beams Using Genetic Algorithm
D Suji, S.C Natesan, R Murugesan