All Areas Submissions - December 2011

Global Optimization
Algorithmic aspects of sums of hermitian squares
Sabine Burgdorf, Kristijan Cafuta, Igor Klep, Janez Povh

Global Optimization
Global Search Strategies for Solving Multilinear Least-squares Problems
Mats Andersson, Oleg Burdakov, Hans Knutsson, Spartak Zikrin

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Improved Column Generation for Highly Degenerate Master Problems
Jacques Desrosiers, Jean-Bertrand Gauthier, Marco Lübbecke

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Subdifferentials of nonconvex supremum functions and their applications to semi-infinite and infinite programs with Lipschitzian data
Boris Mordukhovich, Nghia Tran

Nonlinear Optimization
On the Difficulty of Deciding Asymptotic Stability of Cubic Homogeneous Vector Fields
Amir Ali Ahmadi

Global Optimization
A branch and bound algorithm for the global optimization of Hessian Lipschitz continuous functions
Jaroslav Fowkes, Nicholas Gould, Chris Farmer

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Security Framework for Smart Metering with Multiple Data Consumers
Cristina Rottondi, Giacomo Verticale, Antonio Capone

Nonlinear Optimization
A new family of high order directions for unconstrained optimization inspired by Chebyshev and Shamanskii methods
Bilel Kchouk, Jean-Pierre Dussault

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
A Family of Newton Methods for Nonsmooth Constrained Systems with Nonisolated Solutions
Francisco Facchinei, Andreas Fischer, Markus Herrich

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A randomized Mirror-Prox method for solving structured large-scale matrix saddle-point problems
Michel Baes, Michael Bürgisser, Arkadi Nemirovski

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Hedge algorithm and Dual Averaging schemes
Michel Baes, Michael Bürgisser

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Optimizing Trading Decisions for Hydro Storage Systems using Approximate Dual Dynamic Programming
Nils Loehndorf, David Wozabal, Stefan Minner

Robust Optimization
Robust and Trend-following Student's t Kalman Smoothers
Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, James V. Burke, Gianluigi Pillonetto

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
The recoverable robust tail assignment problem
Gary Froyland, Stephen J Maher, Cheng-Lung Wu

Applications — Science and Engineering
Optimizing the Spectral Radius
Yurii Nesterov, Vladimir Protasov

Combinatorial Optimization
The Asymmetric Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem
Anja Fischer

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
DC approach to regularity of convex multifunctions with applications to infinite systems
Boris Mordukhovich, Nghia Tran

Nonlinear Optimization
High order Halley type directions
Bilel Kchouk, Jean-Pierre Dussault

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On convergence rate of the Douglas-Rachford operator splitting method
Bingsheng He, Xiaoming Yuan

Applications — Science and Engineering
Models for managing the impact of an epidemic
Daniel Bienstock, A. Cecilia Zenteno

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Optimizing convex functions over nonconvex sets
Daniel Bienstock, Alexander Michalka

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Continuous convex sets and zero duality gap for convex programs
Emil ERNST, Michel VOLLE

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Zero duality gap for convex programs: a general result
Emil ERNST, Michel VOLLE

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Closed means continuous iff polyhedral: a converse of the GKR theorem
Emil ERNST

Nonlinear Optimization
Modifications of the limited-memory BNS method for better satisfaction of previous quasi-Newton conditions
Ladislav Luksan, Jan Vlcek

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
A lifting method for generalized semi-infinite programs based on lower level Wolfe duality
Moritz Diehl, Boris Houska, Oliver Stein, Paul Steuermann

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A primal-dual splitting method for convex optimization involving Lipschitzian, proximable and linear composite terms
Laurent Condat

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Error bounds for vector-valued functions on metric spaces
Ewa M. Bednarczuk, Alexander Y. Kruger

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Stationarity and regularity of infinite collections of sets
Alexander Y. Kruger, Marco A. López

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Stationarity and regularity of infinite collections of sets. Applications to infinitely constrained optimization
Alexander Y. Kruger, Marco A. López

Integer Programming
Using Symmetry to Optimize Over the Sherali-Adams Relaxation
James Ostrowski

Global Optimization
Proximal Methods with Bregman Distances to Solve VIP on Hadamard manifolds
E.A. Papa Quiroz, P.R. Oliveira

Robust Optimization
The Decision Rule Approach to Optimisation under Uncertainty: Methodology and Applications in Operations Management
Angelos Georghiou, Wolfram Wiesemann, Daniel Kuhn

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
Metric regularity of the sum of multifunctions and applications
van Ngai Huynh, Huu Tron Nguyen, Michel Thera

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
About error bounds in metric spaces
Marian J. Fabian, Rene Henrion, Alexander Y. Kruger, Jirı V. Outrata

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Some remarks on stability of generalized equations
Rene Henrion, Alexander Y. Kruger, Jirı V. Outrata

Nonlinear Optimization
A NEW PROBABILISTIC ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING NONLINEAR EQUATIONS SYSTEMS
Nguyen Huu Thong, Tran Van Hao

Nonlinear Optimization
The Lagrange method and SAO with bounds on the dual variables
MJD Powell

Nonlinear Optimization
A preconditioning framework for sequences of diagonally modified linear systems arising in optimization
Stefania Bellavia, Valentina De Simone, Daniela di Serafino, Benedetta Morini

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
The Gram dimension of a graph
Monique Laurent, Antonios Varvitsiotis

Nonlinear Optimization
Global Convergence of a General Filter Algorithm Based on an Efficiency Condition of the Step
Gislaine Aparecida PERIÇARO, Ademir Alves RIBEIRO, Elizabeth Wegner KARAS

Nonlinear Optimization
Parallel algebraic multilevel Schwarz preconditioners for elliptic PDE systems
Alfio Borzì, Valentina De Simone, Daniela di Serafino

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Simultaneous Pursuit of Out-of-Sample Performance and Sparsity in Index Tracking Portfolios
Akiko Takeda, Mahesan Niranjan, Jun-ya Gotoh, Yoshinobu Kawahara