All Areas Submissions - December 2018

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Endogenous stochastic optimisation for relief distribution assisted with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Jose Javier Escribano Macias, Nils Goldbeck, Pei-Yuan Hsu, Panagiotis Angeloudis, Washington Ochieng

Applications — Science and Engineering
Energy and Reserve Dispatch with Distributionally Robust Joint Chance Constraints
Christos Ordoudis, Viet Anh Nguyen, Daniel Kuhn, Pierre Pinson

Stochastic Programming
Parallelizing Subgradient Methods for the Lagrangian Dual in Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming
Cong Han Lim, Jeff Linderoth, James Luedtke, Stephen Wright

Integer Programming
Consistency for 0-1 programming
Danial Davarnia, John Hooker

Combinatorial Optimization
On prime and minimal representations of a face of a polyhedron
Ta Van Tu

Stochastic Programming
Stochastic Hydro-thermal Unit Commitment via Multi-level Scenario Trees and Bundle Regularization
E. C. Finardi, R. D. Lobato, V. L. de Matos, C. Sagastizábal, A. Tomasgard

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A dual spectral projected gradient method for log-determinant semidefinite problems
Takashi Nakagaki, Mituhiro Fukuda, Sunyoung Kim, Makoto Yamashita

Applications — Science and Engineering
Group sparse recovery in impulsive noise via alternating direction method of multipliers
Jianwen Huang, Feng Zhang, Jianjun Wang, Wendong Wang

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Policies for Inventory Models with Product Returns Forecast from Past Demands and Past Sales
Mabel C. Chou, C.-K. Sim , X.-M. Yuan

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A New Face Method for Linear Programming
Ping-Qi Pan

Combinatorial Optimization
An improved analysis for algorithms on cuts and scheduling
Simai He, Suyuan Luo, Haoyue Wang

Combinatorial Optimization
A New Extended Formulation with Valid Inequalities for the Capacitated Concentrator Location Problem
Massimo Di Francesco, Manlio Gaudioso, Enrico Gorgone, Ishwar Murthy

Integer Programming
Convergence of Finite-Dimensional Approximations for Mixed-Integer Optimization with Differential Equations
Falk M. Hante, Martin Schmidt

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
The Sard theorem for essentially smooth locally Lipschitz maps and applications in optimization
Xuan Duc Ha Truong

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On inexact relative-error hybrid proximal extragradient, forward-backward and Tseng's modified forward-backward methods with inertial effects
Maicon Marques Alves, Raul Marcavillaca

Integer Programming
Insight into the computation of Steiner minimal trees in Euclidean space of general dimension
Marcia Fampa

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Bookings in the European Gas Market: Characterisation of Feasibility and Computational Complexity Results
Martine Labbé, Fränk Plein, Martin Schmidt

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
Volumetric barrier decomposition algorithms for two-stage stochastic linear semi-infinite programming
Baha Alzalg, Asma Gafour, Lewa’ Alzaleq

Global Optimization
Intersection cuts for factorable MINLP
Felipe Serrano

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Integrated Trajectory-Location-Routing for Rapid Humanitarian Deliveries using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Jose Javier Escribano Macias, Panagiotis Angeloudis, Washington Ochieng

Robust Optimization
Decomposition Methods for Solving Two-Stage Distributionally Robust Optimization Problems
Chen Yannan, Sun Hailin, Xu Huifu

Nonlinear Optimization
A note on solving nonlinear optimization problems in variable precision
Serge Gratton, Philippe L. Toint

Stochastic Programming
Machine learning approach to chance-constrained problems: An algorithm based on the stochastic gradient descent
Lukáš Adam, Martin Branda

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Deep Unfolding of a Proximal Interior Point Method for Image Restoration
Carla Bertocchi, Emilie Chouzenoux, Marie-Caroline Corbineau, Jean-Christophe Pesquet, Marco Prato

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Large-scale Influence Maximization via Maximal Covering Location
Evren Güney, Markus Leitner, Mario Ruthmair, Markus Sinnl

Integer Programming
Weighted Thresholding Homotopy Method for Sparsity Constrained Optimization
Wenxing Zhu, Huating Huang, Lanfan Jiang, Jianli Chen

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Generalization of Linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers with Indefinite Proximal Regularization and Smaller Proximal Parameter
Chang Xiaokai, Liu Sanyang, Zhao Pengjun, Song Dunjiang

Combinatorial Optimization
A faster FPTAS for counting two-rowed contingency tables
Tzvi Alon, Nir Halman

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
An efficient adaptive accelerated inexact proximal point method for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite problems
Weiwei Kong, Renato D.C. Monteiro, Jefferson G. Melo

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Generating irreducible copositive matrices using the stable set problem
Peter J.C. Dickinson, Reinier de Zeeuw

Stochastic Programming
A stochastic approximation method for chance-constrained nonlinear programs
Rohit Kannan, James Luedtke

Integer Programming
Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for Mixed Integer Programming
Gregor Hendel

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
First-Order Algorithms Converge Faster than $O(1/k)$ on Convex Problems
Ching-pei Lee, Stephen Wright

Integer Programming
The Noncooperative Fixed Charge Transportation Problem
Nathan Sudermann-Merx, Simone Sagratella, Marcel Stefan Schmidt

Network Optimization
A Linear Programming Based Approach to the Steiner Tree Problem with a Fixed Number of Terminals
Matias Siebert, Shabbir Ahmed, George Nemhauser

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A unified framework for Bregman proximal methods: subgradient, gradient, and accelerated gradient schemes
David H. Gutman, Javier Pena

Nonlinear Optimization
On High-order Model Regularization for Multiobjective Optimization
L. Calderón, M.A. Diniz-Ehrhardt, J.M. Martínez

Nonlinear Optimization
A Single Time-Scale Stochastic Approximation Method for Nested Stochastic Optimization
Saeed Ghadimi, Andrzej Ruszczynski, Mengdi Wang

Stochastic Programming
Parametric Simulation Optimization for Multistage Stochastic Programming
Saeed Ghadimi, Raymond Perkins, Warren Powell

Nonlinear Optimization
Escaping local minima with derivative-free methods: a numerical investigation
Coralia Cartis, Lindon Roberts, Oliver Sheridan-Methven

Infinite Dimensional Optimization
On semi-infinite systems of convex polynomial inequalities and polynomial optimization problems
Feng Guo, Xiaoxia Sun

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Consistency Bounds and Support Recovery of D-stationary Solutions of Sparse Sample Average Approximations
Miju Ahn

Integer Programming
Submodularity in conic quadratic mixed 0-1 optimization
Alper Atamturk, Andres Gomez

Global Optimization
The convex hull of a quadratic constraint over a polytope
Asteroide Santana, Santanu Dey

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
A Piecewise Convexification Method for Solving Bilevel Programs with A Nonconvex Follower's Problem
Gaoxi Li

Integer Programming
Successive Quadratic Upper-Bounding for Discrete Mean-Risk Minimization and Network Interdiction
Alper Atamturk, Carlos Deck, Hyemin Jeon

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Comparison of Nonsmooth, Nonconvex, Constrained Optimization Solvers for the Design of Time-Delay Compensators
Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Tim Mitchell, Tomas Vyhlidal

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Weak convergence of an extended splitting method for monotone inclusions
Dong Yunda

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Partial smoothness of the numerical radius at matrices whose fields of values are disks
Adrian S. Lewis, Michael L. Overton