Optimization Online Digest — January 2001

Applications — OR and Management Sciences

Frequency Planning and Ramifications of Coloring
Andreas Eisenblaetter, Martin Groetschel, Arie M.C.A. Koster

Re-Optimization of Signaling Transfer Points
Arie M.C.A. Koster

Optimal location of intermodal freight hubs
Illia Racunica, Laura Wynter

Applications — Science and Engineering

Improved linear programming bounds for antipodal spherical codes
Kurt M. Anstreicher

Optimal Control of Distributed Proceses using Reduced Order Models
Eva Balsa-Canto, Antonio A. Alonso, Julio R. Banga

Handling Nonnegative Constraints in Spectral Estimation
Brien Alkire, Lieven Vandenberghe

Combinatorial Optimization

GRASP: An annotated bibliography
P. Festa, M. G. C. Resende

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization

Two properties of condition numbers for convex programs via implicitly defined barrier functions
Javier Pena

Non Convergence Result for Conformal Approximation of Variational Problems Subject to a Convexity Constraint
Philippe Choné, Hervé Le Meur

Convex optimization problems involving finite autocorrelation sequences
Brien Alkire, Lieven Vandenberghe

Integer Programming

Generating Convex Polynomial Inequalities for Mixed 0-1 Programs
Robert Stubbs, Sanjay Mehrotra

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming

An Interior-Point Approach to Sensitivity Analysis in Degenerate Linear Programs
E. Alper Yildirim, Michael J. Todd

Network Optimization

Newton Algorithms for Large-Scale Strictly Convex Separable Network Optimization
Aleksandar Donev, Phillip Duxbury

Nonlinear Optimization

Reducing the number of AD passes for computing a sparse Jacobian matrix
Shahadat Hossain , Trond Steihaug

Other Topics

Generalized Goal Programming: Polynomial Methods and Applications
Emilio Carrizosa , Joerg Fliege