Optimization Online Digest — August 2003

Applications — OR and Management Sciences

Capacitated Facility Location Model with Risk Pooling
Leyla Ozsen, Mark S. Daskin, Collette R. Coullard

Reliability Models for Facility Location: The Expected Failure Cost Case
Lawrence V. Snyder, Mark S. Daskin

Parallel Interior Point Solver for Structured Quadratic Programs: Application to Financial Planning Problems
Jacek Gondzio, Andreas Grothey

Applications — Science and Engineering

Optimization of A Fed-batch Fermentation Process Control Competition Problem Using NEOS
Jinsong Liang, YangQuan Chen

Combinatorial Optimization

Polyhedral investigations on stable multi-sets
Arie M.C.A. Koster, Adrian Zymolka

Bounds for the Quadratic Assignment Problem Using the Bundle Method
Franz Rendl, Renata Sotirov

Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization

Convergence of string-averaging projection schemes for inconsistent convex feasibility problems
Yair Censor, Eli Tom

Convex- and Monotone- Transformable Mathematical Programming Problems and a Proximal-Like Point Method
J. X. da Cruz Neto, O. P. Ferreira, L. R. Lucambio Perez, S. Z. Nemeth

Integer Programming

Lifting 2-integer knapsack inequalities
Agostinho Agra, Miguel Constantino

Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming

ON THE LIMITING PROPERTIES OF THE AFFINE-SCALING DIRECTIONS
Hugo J. Lara, Clovis C. Gonzaga, Levent Tuncel

Nonlinear Optimization

A Wide Interval for Efficient Self-Scaling Quasi-Newton Algorithms
M. Al-Baali, H. Khalfan

The continuous Newton-Raphson method can look ahead
Raphael Hauser, Jelena Nedic

Double-Regularization Proximal Methods, with Complementarity Applications
Paulo J. S. Silva, Jonathan Eckstein

Intermediate Report on the development of an optimization code for smooth, high computing load, continuous objective functions when derivatives are not available
Frank Vanden Berghen

KNITRO-Direct: A Hybrid Interior Algorithm for Nonlinear Optimization
Richard Waltz, Jose Luis Morales, Jorge Nocedal, Dominique Orban

Stochastic Programming

On a class of minimax stochastic programs
Alexander Shapiro, Shabbir Ahmed