Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: MOPTA, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 2017, Selected Contributions (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Book 279)

This book features a selection of contributions that were presented at the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications Conference (MOPTA) held at Lehigh University in B ethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA between August 16-18, 2017. The conference brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working on both theoretical and practical aspects of continuous and discrete optimization. Topics covered include algorithms for solving convex, network, mixed-integer, nonlinear, and global optimization problems, and address the application of deterministic and stochastic optimization techniques in energy, finance, logistics, analytics, health, and other important fields. The selected contributions in this book illustrate the broad diversity of ideas discussed at the meeting. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii A Model of Residential Mail Delivery by Drones (Monica G. Cojocaru, Edward W. Thommes, Sierra Gillies)....Pages 1-15 On the Value of Dual-Firing Power Generation Under Uncertain Gas Network Access (Boris Defourny, Shu Tu)....Pages 17-37 Efficient Piecewise Linearization for a Class of Non-convex Optimization Problems: Comparative Results and Extensions (Giorgio Fasano, János D. Pintér)....Pages 39-56 Smooth Minimization of Nonsmooth Functions with Parallel Coordinate Descent Methods (Olivier Fercoq, Peter Richtárik)....Pages 57-96 Second-Order Cone Optimization Formulations for Service System Design Problems with Congestion (Julio C. Góez, Miguel F. Anjos)....Pages 97-120 The Iteration-Complexity Upper Bound for the Mizuno-Todd-Ye Predictor-Corrector Algorithm is Tight (Murat Mut, Tamás Terlaky)....Pages 121-137 Optimization of Inventory and Distribution for Hip and Knee Joint Replacements via Multistage Stochastic Programming (Mohammad Pirhooshyaran, Lawrence V. Snyder)....Pages 139-155 TopSpin: TOPic Discovery via Sparse Principal Component INterference (Martin Takáč, Selin Damla Ahipaşaoğlu, Ngai-Man Cheung, Peter Richtárik)....Pages 157-180 Exact Optimal Solution to Nonseparable Concave Quadratic Integer Programming Problems (Fenlan Wang)....Pages 181-192 This volume contains a selection of contributions that were presented at the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications Conference (MOPTA) held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on July 30-August 1, 2012. The conference brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners, working on both theoretical and practical aspects of continuous or discrete optimization. Topics presented included algorithms for solving convex, network, mixed-integer, nonlinear, and global optimization problems, and addressed the application of optimization techniques in finance, logistics, health, and other important fields. The contributions contained in this volume represent a sample of these topics and applications and illustrate the broad diversity of ideas discussed at the meeting--