Optimization Online Digest — April 2012
Applications — OR and Management Sciences
Solving Bin Packing Related Problems Using an Arc Flow Formulation
Filipe Brandão, João Pedro Pedroso
Hybridizing VNS and path-relinking on a particle swarm framework to minimize total flowtime
Wagner Emanoel Costa, Marco C. Goldbarg, Elizabeth G. Goldbarg
Stochastic integer programming based algorithms for adaptable open block surgery scheduling
Camilo Mancilla, Robert Storer
Applications — Science and Engineering
Linear System Identification via Atomic Norm Regularization
Parikshit Shah, Badri Bhaskar, Gonnguo Tang, Benjamin Recht
pcaL1: An implementation in R of three methods for L1-norm principal component analysis
J. Paul Brooks, Sapan Jot
Combinatorial Optimization
A biased random-key genetic algorithm for a 2D and 3D bin packing problem
José F. Gonçalves, Mauricio G.C. Resende
Complementarity and Variational Inequalities
A class of Fejer convergent algorithms, approximate resolvents and the Hybrid Proximal-Extragradient method
B. F. Svaiter
The Split Common Null Point Problem
Charles Byrne, Yair Censor, Aviv Gibali, Simeon Reich
A barrier-based smoothing proximal point algorithm for NCPs over closed convex cones
Chek Beng Chua, Zhen Li
Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
Atomic norm denoising with applications to line spectral estimation
Badri Bhaskar, Gongguo Tang, Benjamin Recht
Solution of monotone complementarity and general convex programming problems using modified potential reduction interior point method
Kuo-Ling Huang, Sanjay Mehrotra
On the Convergence Properties of Non-Euclidean Extragradient Methods for Variational Inequalities with Generalized Monotone Operators
Cong D. Dang, Guanghui Lan
Extrapolation and Local Acceleration of an Iterative Process for Common Fixed Point Problems
Andrzej Cegielski, Yair Censor
Global Optimization
Analytical formulas for calculating the extremal ranks of the matrix-valued function $A + BXC$ when the rank of $X$ is fixed
Tian Yongge
Global Optimization of Nonlinear Network Design
Arvind Raghunathan
Integer Programming
Semi-continuous network flow problems
Gustavo Angulo, Shabbir Ahmed, Santanu S. Dey
Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming
Decomposition Methods for Large Scale LP Decoding
Siddharth Barman, Xishuo Liu, Stark Draper, Benjamin Recht
On Chubanov's method for Linear Programming
Amitabh Basu, Jesus De Loera, Mark Junod
Single-Row Equidistant Facility Layout as a Special Case of Single-Row Facility Layout
Philipp Hungerländer
Parallel distributed-memory simplex for large-scale stochastic LP problems
Miles Lubin, J. A. Julian Hall, Cosmin G. Petra, Mihai Anitescu
ON AN EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FACE ALGORITHM FOR LINEAR PROGRAMMING
Zhang Leihong, Yang Weihong, Liao Lizhi
Containment problems for polytopes and spectrahedra
Kai Kellner, Thorsten Theobald, Christian Trabandt
Nonlinear Optimization
Successive Convex Approximations to Cardinality-Constrained Quadratic Programs: A DC Approach
Xiaojin Zheng, Xiaoling Sun, Duan Li, Jie Sun
On a self-consistent-field-like iteration for maximizing the sum of the Rayleigh quotients
Zhang Leihong
Using Inexact Gradients in a Multilevel Optimization Algorithm
Michael Lewis, Stephen Nash
Stochastic Programming
The optimal harvesting problem under risk aversion
Bernardo Pagnoncelli, Adriana Piazza
Complexity of Bilevel Coherent Risk Programming
Jonathan Eckstein
Consistency of sample estimates of risk averse stochastic programs
Alexander Shapiro
Optimization with multivariate conditional value-at-risk constraints
Nilay Noyan, Gabor Rudolf
On the convergence of decomposition methods for multi-stage stochastic convex programs
P. Girardeau, A. B. Philpott
A Penalty Decomposition Method for Probabilistically Constrained Convex Programs
Xiaodi Bai, Jie Sun, Xiaojin Zheng, Xiaoling Sun
Other Topics
Moneyless strategy-proof mechanism on single-sinked policy domain: characterization and applications
Qiaoming Han, Donglei Du
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