Optimization Online Digest — November 2002

Applications — OR and Management Sciences

Transparent optical network design with sparse wavelength conversion
Adrian Zymolka, Arie Koster, Roland Wessäly

Rebalancing an Investment Portfolio in the Presence of Transaction Costs
John E. Mitchell, Stephen Braun

Applications — Science and Engineering

Nonlinear Optimisation in CHP-Applications
Michael Wigbels, Wilhelm Althaus, Michael Lucht

Integrating design and production planning considerations in multi-bay manufacturing facility layout
Ignacio Castillo, Brett A. Peters

A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem
Ignacio Castillo, Thaddeus Sim

Socially optimal location of facilities with fixed servers, stochastic demand and congestion
Ignacio Castillo, Armann Ingolfsson, Thaddeus Sim

Combinatorial Optimization

Domination Analysis of Combinatorial Optimization Problems.
Gregory Gutin, Alek Vainshtein, Anders Yeo

Complementarity and Variational Inequalities

A semidefinite programming heuristic for quadratic programming problems with complementarity constraints
Stephen Braun, John E. Mitchell

Integer Programming

Hard equality constrained integer knapsacks
Karen Aardal, Arjen K. Lenstra

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming

A unifying framework for several cutting plane algorithms for semidefinite programming
Kartik Krishnan, John E. Mitchell

Quadratic Convergence of a Squared Smoothing Newton Method for Nonsmooth Matrix Equations and Its Applications in Semidefinite Optimization Problems
JIE SUN, DEFENG SUN, LIQUN QI

Nonlinear Optimization

A Primal-Dual Trust Region Algorithm for Nonlinear Optimization
E. Michael Gertz, Philip E. Gill

An Active-Set Algorithm for Nonlinear Programming Using Linear Programming and Equality Constrained Subproblems
Richard H. Byrd, Nicholas I.M. Gould, Jorge Nocedal, Richard A. Waltz

RIOTS_95--a MATLAB Toolbox for Solving General Optimal Control Problems And Its Applications to Chemical Processes
YangQuan Chen, Adam L. Schwartz

Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Nonconvex Optimization
Ladislav Luksan, Jan Vlcek

Nonsmooth Equation Method for Nonlinear Nonconvex Optimization
Ladislav Luksan, Jan Vlcek

New Variable Metric Methods for Unconstrained Minimization Covering the Large-Scale Case
Jan Vlcek, Ladislav Luksan