All Areas Submissions - December 2006

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
CONVERGENCE OF A CLASS OF SEMI-IMPLICIT TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES FOR NONSMOOTH RIGID MULTIBODY DYNAMICS
Bogdan Gavrea, Mihai Anitescu, Florian Potra

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A T-algebraic approach to primal-dual interior-point algorithms
Chek Beng Chua

Combinatorial Optimization
Approximation algorithms for metric tree cover and generalized tour and tree covers
Viet Hung Nguyen

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A PARALLEL conic interior point decomposition approach for block-angular semidefinite programs
Kartik Krishnan Sivaramakrishnan

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Primal-dual first-order methods with ${\cal O}(1/\epsilon)$ iteration-complexity for cone programming
Guanghui Lan, Zhaosong Lu, Renato D.C. Monteiro

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Set-Partitioning-Based Model for the Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem
Clara Novoa, Rosemary Berger, Jeff Linderoth, Robert Storer

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Optimal Embeddings of Distance Regular Graphs into Euclidean Spaces
Frank Vallentin

Global Optimization
Global minimization using an Augmented Lagrangian method with variable lower-level constraints
Ernesto G. Birgin, Christodoulos A. Floudas, José Mario Martínez

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Sensor Network Localization, Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions, and Graph Realization
Yichuan Ding, Nathan Krislock, Jiawei Qian, Henry Wolkowicz

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Recursive Construction of Optimal Self-Concordant Barriers for Homogeneous Cones
Olena Shevchenko

Optimization Software and Modeling Systems
VSDP: Verified SemiDefinite Programming
Christian Jansson

Nonlinear Optimization
A New Unblocking Technique to Warmstart Interior Point Methods based on Sensitivity Analysis
Jacek Gondzio, Andreas Grothey

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Convex sets with lifted semidefinite representation
Jean B. Lasserre

Nonlinear Optimization
Global convergence of slanting filter methods for nonlinear programming
Elizabeth W. Karas, Ana Paula Oening, Ademir A. Ribeiro

Robust Optimization
Cascading – An adjusted exchange method for robust conic programming
Ralf Werner

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Finding a point in the relative interior of a polyhedron
Coralia Cartis, Nicholas I M Gould

Stochastic Programming
StAMPL: A Filtration-Oriented Modeling Tool for Stochastic Programming
Robert Fourer, Leo Lopes

Robust Optimization
A New Cone Programming Approach for Robust Portfolio Selection
Zhaosong Lu

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Norm-induced densities and testing the boundedness of a convex set
Alexandre Belloni

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On the Closedness of the Linear Image of a Closed Convex Cone
Gabor Pataki

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
Sensitivity analysis in linear semi-infinite programming via partitions
Miguel A. Goberna, Tamás Terlaky, Maxim I. Todorov