All Areas Submissions - December 2016

Applications — Science and Engineering
A Distance-Limited Continuous Location-Allocation Problem for Spatial Planning of Decentralized Systems
Kagan Gokbayrak, Ayse Kocaman

Nonlinear Optimization
Optimization Algorithms for Data Analysis
Stephen J Wright

Combinatorial Optimization
Special cases of the quadratic shortest path problem
Hao Hu, Renata Sotirov

Combinatorial Optimization
The Min-up/Min-down Unit Commitment polytope
Pascale Bendotti, Pierre Fouilhoux, Cécile Rottner

Global Optimization
Global Solution Strategies for the Network-Constrained Unit Commitment (NCUC) Problem with Nonlinear AC Transmission Models
Jianfeng Liu, Anya Castillo, Jean-Paul Watson, Carl Laird

Robust Optimization
Robust Dual Dynamic Programming
Angelos Georghiou, Angelos Tsoukalas, Wolfram Wiesemann

Nonlinear Optimization
Universal regularization methods - varying the power, the smoothness and the accuracy
Coralia Cartis, Nick I M Gould, Philippe L Toint

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Rescaling Algorithms for Linear Programming Part I: Conic feasibility
Daniel Dadush, Laszlo Vegh, Giacomo Zambelli

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Successive LP Approach with C-VaR Type Constraints for IMRT Optimization
Shogo Kishimoto, Makoto Yamashita

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Risk management for forestry planning under uncertainty in demand and prices.
Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Laureano F. Escudero, Monique Guignard, Andres Weintraub

Integer Programming
Distributed domain propagation
Robert Lion Gottwald Gottwald, Stephen J. Maher, Yuji Shinano

Nonlinear Optimization
Augmented Lagrangians with constrained subproblems and convergence to second-order stationary points
E. G. Birgin, G. Haeser, A. Ramos

Applications — Science and Engineering
Distributionally robust chance constrained optimal power flow with renewables: A conic reformulation
Weijun Xie, Shabbir Ahmed

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An Algorithm for Nonsmooth Optimization by Successive Piecewise Linearization
Sabrina Fiege, Andreas Griewank, Andrea Walther

Other Topics
Stochastic Primal-Dual Methods and Sample Complexity of Reinforcement Learning
Yichen Chen, Mengdi Wang

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
A Robust Approach to the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Uncertain Travel Times
Lars Eufinger, Jannis Kurtz, Christoph Buchheim, Uwe Clausen

Applications — Science and Engineering
HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS FOR DESIGNING UNIMODULAR CODE SEQUENCES WITH PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES
Shankarachary Ragi, Hans D. Mittelmann, Edwin K.P. Chong

Integer Programming
Solving an On-line Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Structured Time Windows
Philipp Hungerländer, Kerstin Maier, Jörg Pöcher, Andrea Rendl, Christian Truden

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
New Constraints and Features for the University Course Timetabling Problem
Sam Applebee, Markus Aschinger, Alexandru Bucur, Harry Edmonds, Philipp Hungerländer, Kerstin Maier

Nonlinear Optimization
Unified approach for solving Box-Constrained models with continuous or discrete variables by Non monotonous Derivative Free Optimization techniques.
Ubaldo M Garcia Palomares, Pedro S Rodríguez Hernández

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Convergence rates of moment-sum-of-squares hierarchies for volume approximation of semialgebraic sets
Milan Korda, Didier Henrion

Nonlinear Optimization
On the Convergence of Asynchronous Parallel Iteration with Arbitrary Delays
Zhimin Peng, Yangyang Xu, Ming Yan, Wotao Yin

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Primal-dual Three-operator Splitting Scheme
Ming Yan

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Permutations in the factorization of simplex bases
Ricardo Fukasawa, Laurent Poirrier

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Fixing and extending some recent results on the ADMM algorithm
Sebastian Banert, Radu Ioan Bot, Ernö Robert Csetnek

Integer Programming
The structure of the infinite models in integer programming
Amitabh Basu, Michele Conforti, Marco Di Summa, Joseph Paat

Combinatorial Optimization
Polyhedral Results, Branch-and-cut and Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithms for the Adjacent Only Quadratic Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
Dilson Pereira, Alexandre Cunha

Combinatorial Optimization
On Dantzig figures from lexicographic orders
Akshay Gupte, Svetlana Poznanovic

Stochastic Programming
Second-order cone programming formulation for two player zero-sum game with chance constraints
Vikas Vikram Singh, Abdel Lisser

Integer Programming
Mixed-integer linear representability, disjunctions, and variable elimination
Amitabh Basu, Kipp Martin, Christopher Ryan, Guanyi Wang

Combinatorial Optimization
Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Partition Coloring Problem
Fabio Furini, Enrico Malaguti, Alberto Santini

Integer Programming
Computing Feasible Points for MINLPs with MPECs
Lars Schewe, Martin Schmidt

Other Topics
Bridging the gap between predictive and prescriptive analytics - new optimization methodology needed
Dick den Hertog, Krzysztof Postek

Other Topics
Understanding Deep Neural Networks with Rectified Linear Units
Raman Arora, Amitabh Basu, Poorya Mianjy, Anirbit Mukherjee

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A Multigrid approach to SDP relaxations of sparse polynomial optimization problems
J.S. Campos Salazar, P. Parpas

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Limited-Memory Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Bound-Constrained Nonsmooth Optimization
Nitish Shirish Keskar, Andreas Waechter

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Efficiency of minimizing compositions of convex functions and smooth maps
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Courtney Paquette

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
The p-cones in dimension n>=3 are not homogeneous when p \neq 2
Masaru Ito, Bruno F. Lourenco

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Optimality conditions for problems over symmetric cones and a simple augmented Lagrangian method
Bruno F. Lourenco, Ellen H. Fukuda, Masao Fukushima

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Flow Formulations for Curriculum-based Course Timetabling
Niels-Christian F. Bagger, Simon Kristiansen, Matias Sørensen, Thomas R. Stidsen

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Automated timetabling for small colleges and high schools using huge integer programs
Joshua S. Friedman

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Recent Progress Using Matheuristics for Strategic Maritime Inventory Routing
Dimitri Papageorgiou, Myun-Seok Cheon, Stuart Harwood, Francisco Trespalacios, George Nemhauser

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An optimization-based approach for delivering radio-pharmaceuticals to medical imaging centers
Ioannis Akrotirianakis, Amit Chakraborty

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
An extension of Chubanov's algorithm to symmetric cones
Bruno F. Lourenco, Tomonari Kitahara, Masakazu Muramatsu, Takashi Tsuchiya