Optimization Online Digest — December 2002

Combinatorial Optimization

A Simple Clique Camouflaging Against Greedy Maximum Clique Heuristics
Stanislav Busygin

The stable set problem and the lift-and-project ranks of graphs
Laszlo Liptak, Levent Tuncel

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization

A DC piecewise affine model and a bundling technique in nonconvex nonsmooth minimization
Antonio Fuduli, Manlio Gaudioso, Giovanni Giallombardo

Integer Programming

Selected Topics in Column Generation
Marco E. Luebbecke, Jacques Desrosiers

Semidefinite programming and integer programming
Monique Laurent, Franz Rendl

An Efficient Exact Algorithm for the Vertex $p$-Center Problem and Computational Experiments for Different Set Covering Subproblems
T. Ilhan, F.A. Ozsoy, M.C. Pinar

Nonlinear Optimization

Iterative algorithms with seminorm-induced oblique projections
Yair Censor, Tommy Elfving

A Global Convergence Theory of a Filter Line Search Method for Nonlinear Programming
Choong Ming Chin

A globally convergent linearly constrained Lagrangian method for nonlinear optimization
Michael P. Friedlander, Michael A. Saunders

Robust Optimization

Robust Option Modelling
Frank Lutgens, Jos Sturm

On Robust 0-1 Optimization with Uncertain Cost Coefficients
Mustafa C. Pinar