All Areas Submissions - December 2020

Combinatorial Optimization
Implications, conflicts, and reductions for Steiner trees
Daniel Reheldt, Thorsten Koch

Combinatorial Optimization
On Recognizing Staircase Compatibility
Andreas Bärmann, Patrick Gemander, Alexander Martin, Maximilian Merkert

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
User manual of NewtBracket: “A Newton-Bracketing method for a simple conic optimization problem” with applications to QOPs in binary variables
Sunyoung Kim, Masakazu Kojima, Kim-Chuan Toh

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
A New Dual Face Algorithm Using LU Factorization for Linear Programming
Ping-Qi Pan

Nonlinear Optimization
On the Linear Convergence to Weak/Standard D-stationary Points of DCA-based Algorithms for Structured Nonsmooth DC Programming
Dong Hongbo , Tao Min

Applications — Science and Engineering
Algorithms for Block Tridiagonal Systems: Foundations and New Results for Generalized Kalman Smoothing
Aleksandr Aravkin, Bradley Bell, James Burke, Gianluigi Pillonetto

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On the Iterate Convergence and Manifold Identification of Inexact Proximal-Newton-Type Methods Under a Sharpness Condition
Ching-pei Lee

Nonlinear Optimization
A Distributed and Secure Algorithm for Computing Dominant SVD Based on Projection Splitting
Lei Wang, Xin Liu, Yin Zhang

Robust Optimization
Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier-Motzkin Elimination Lens
Dimitris Bertsimas, Stefan ten Eikelder, Dick den Hertog, Nikolaos Trichakis

Other Topics
A dynamic programming approach to segmented isotonic regression
Victor Bucarey, Martine Labbé, Juan M. Morales, Salvador Pineda

Stochastic Programming
ALSO-X is Better than CVaR: Convex Approximations for Chance Constrained Programs Revisited
Nan Jiang, Weijun Xie

Nonlinear Optimization
A Riemannian Block Coordinate Descent Method for Computing the Projection Robust Wasserstein Distance
Minhui Huang, Shiqian Ma, Lifeng Lai

Integer Programming
Convex Hulls of Symmetric Multilinear Polynomials over Box Constraints
Yibo Xu, Warren Adams, Akshay Gupte

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Select, Route and Schedule: Optimizing Community Paramedicine Service Delivery with Mandatory Visits and Patient Prioritization
Shima Azizi, Brenton Faber, Sharon Johnson, Renata Konrad, Andrew C. Trapp

Integer Programming
On the Integrality Gap of Binary Integer Programs with Gaussian Data
Sander Borst, Daniel Dadush, Sophie Huiberts, Samarth Tiwari

Global Optimization
An Exact Projection-Based Algorithm for Bilevel Mixed-Integer Problems with Nonlinearities
Maximilian Merkert, Galina Orlinskaya, Dieter Weninger

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Moreau envelope of supremum functions with applications to infinite and stochastic programming
Pedro Pérez-Aros, Emilio Vilches

Robust Optimization
Kernel Distributionally Robust Optimization
Jia-Jie Zhu, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Bernhard Schölkopf, Moritz Diehl

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An exact solution approach for an electric bus dispatch problem
Matías Alvo, Gustavo Angulo, Mathias A. Klapp

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
A Structure Exploiting Algorithm for Non-Smooth Semi-Linear Elliptic Optimal Control Problems
Olga Weiß, Andrea Walther, Stephan Schmidt

Other Topics
Branch-and-bound and objective branching with three objectives
Nicolas Forget, Kathrin Klamroth, Sune Lauth Gadegaard, Anthony Przybylski, Lars Relund Nielsen

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Polyhedral Separation via Difference of Convex (DC) Programming
Annabella Astorino, Massimo Di Francesco, Manlio Gaudioso, Enrico Gorgone, Benedetto Manca

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
On Hölder Calmness of Minimizing Sets
Diethard Klatte, Bernd Kummer

Other Topics
Twenty Years of Continuous Multiobjective Optimization
Gabriele Eichfelder

Nonlinear Optimization
On complexity and convergence of high-order coordinate descent algorithms
V. S. Amaral, R. Andreani, E. G. Birgin, D. S. Marcondes, J. M. Martínez

Nonlinear Optimization
ADMM and inexact ALM: the QP case
Stefano Cipolla, Jacek Gondzio

Integer Programming
Arc-Item Based Formulations for the Cumulative Vehicle Routing Problem
Mauro Henrique Mulati, Ricardo Fukasawa, Flávio Keidi Miyazawa

Stochastic Programming
A converging Benders’ decomposition algorithm for two-stage mixed-integer recourse models
Niels van der Laan, Ward Romeijnders

Integer Programming
Learning To Scale Mixed-Integer Programs
Timo Berthold, Gregor Hendel

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Stochastic RWA and Lightpath Rerouting in WDM Networks
Maryam Daryalal, Merve Bodur

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Planar Maximum Coverage Location Problem with Partial Coverage, Continuous Spatial Demand, and Adjustable Quality of Service
Manish Bansal, Parshin Shojaee

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Some Modified Fast Iteration Shrinkage Thresholding Algorithms with a New Adaptive Non-monotone Stepsize Strategy for Nonsmooth and Convex Minimization Problems
Liu Hongwei, Wang Ting, Liu Zexian

Applications — Science and Engineering
Unbiased Subdata Selection for Fair Classification: A Unified Framework and Scalable Algorithms
Qing Ye, Weijun Xie

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
An exact (re)optimization framework for real-time traffic management
Giorgio Sartor, Carlo Mannino

Other Topics
The follower optimality cuts for mixed-integerlinear bilevel programming problems
Sara Mattia

Robust Optimization
Data-Driven Optimization with Distributionally Robust Second-Order Stochastic Dominance Constraints
Chun Peng, Erick Delage

Network Optimization
Commodity Prioritized Maximum Dynamic Multi-Commodity Flow Problem
Tanka Nath Dhamala, Durga Prasad Khanal, Urmila Pyakurel

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Linear Complementarity Systems
Arvind Raghunathan, Jeff Linderoth

Nonlinear Optimization
Secant acceleration of sequential residual methods for solving large-scale nonlinear systems of equations
Ernesto G. Birgin, J. M. Martínez

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Error bounds, facial residual functions and applications to the exponential cone
Scott B. Lindstrom, Bruno F. Lourenco, Ting Kei Pong

Combinatorial Optimization
Planar Maximum Coverage Location Problem with Partial Coverage, Continuous Spatial Demand, and Adjustable Quality of Service
Manish Bansal, Parshin Shojaee

Combinatorial Optimization
A new branch-and-filter exact algorithm for binary constraint satisfaction problems
Pablo San Segundo, Fabio Furini, Rafael León

Nonlinear Optimization
The Landscape of the Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization
Benjamin Grimmer, Haihao Lu, Pratik Worah, Vahab Mirrokni

Integer Programming
Supermodularity and valid inequalities for quadratic optimization with indicators
Alper Atamturk, Andres Gomez

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Weak notions of nondegeneracy in nonlinear semidefinite programming
Roberto Andreani, Gabriel Haeser, Leonardo M. Mito, Héctor Ramírez

Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Fleet Sizing and Service Region Partitioning\\for Same-Day Delivery Systems
Dipayan Banerjee, Alan Erera, Alejandro Toriello

Integer Programming
Conic Mixed-Binary Sets: Convex Hull Characterizations and Applications
Fatma Kılınç-Karzan, Simge Küçükyavuz, Dabeen Lee

Nonlinear Optimization
Constrained and Composite Optimization via Adaptive Sampling Methods
Yuchen Xie, Raghu Bollapragada, Richard Byrd, Jorge Nocedal