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Distributionally robust optimization is used to tackle decision making problems under uncertainty where the distribution of the uncertain data is ambiguous. Many ambiguity sets have been proposed for continuous uncertainty that build on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Karthik Natarajan , Divya Padmanabhan , Arjun Ramachandra

The efficacy of robust optimization spans a variety of settings with uncertainties bounded in predetermined sets. In many applications, uncertainties are affected by decisions and cannot be modeled with current frameworks. This paper takes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Omid Nohadani , Kartikey Sharma

The paper deals with a lot sizing problem with ill-known demands modeled by fuzzy intervals whose membership functions are possibility distributions for the values of the uncertain demands. Optimization criteria, in the setting of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Romain Guillaume , Przemyslaw Kobylanski , Pawel Zielinski

Partial set cover problem and set multi-cover problem are two generalizations of set cover problem. In this paper, we consider the partial set multi-cover problem which is a combination of them: given an element set $E$, a collection of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Yishuo Shi , Yingli Ran , Zhao Zhang , James Willson , Guangmo Tong , Ding-Zhu Du

Radiotherapy planning naturally leads to a multi-criteria optimization problem which is subject to different sources of uncertainty. In order to find the desired treatment plan, a decision maker must balance these objectives as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jan Schröeder , Yair Censor , Philipp Süss , Karl-Heinz Küfer

A popular approach for addressing uncertainty in variational inequality problems is by solving the expected residual minimization (ERM) problem. This avenue necessitates distributional information associated with the uncertainty and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Yue Xie , Uday V. Shanbhag

In this paper, we study a novel problem, Minimum Robust Multi-Submodular Cover for Fairness (MinRF), as follows: given a ground set $V$; $m$ monotone submodular functions $f_1,...,f_m$; $m$ thresholds $T_1,...,T_m$ and a non-negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Lan N. Nguyen , My T. Thai

A standard type of uncertainty set in robust optimization is budgeted uncertainty, where an interval of possible values for each parameter is given and the total deviation from their lower bounds is bounded. In the two-stage setting,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Marc Goerigk , Dorothee Henke , Lasse Wulf

We consider robust combinatorial optimization problems with cost uncertainty where the decision maker can prepare K solutions beforehand and chooses the best of them once the true cost is revealed. Also known as min-max-min robustness (a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Marc Goerigk , Jannis Kurtz , Michael Poss

We extend Robust Optimization to fractional programming, where both the objective and the constraints contain uncertain parameters. Earlier work did not consider uncertainty in both the objective and the constraints, or did not use Robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Bram L. Gorissen

In project scheduling under processing times uncertainty, the Anchor-Robust Project Scheduling Problem is to find a baseline schedule of bounded makespan and a max-weight subset of jobs whose starting times are guaranteed. The problem was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Pascale Bendotti , Philippe Chrétienne , Pierre Fouilhoux , Adèle Pass-Lanneau

This paper provides an overview of results and concepts in minimax robust hypothesis testing for two and multiple hypotheses. It starts with an introduction to the subject, highlighting its connection to other areas of robust statistics and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , H. Vincent Poor

Robust mixed finite element methods are developed for a quad-curl singular perturbation problem. Lower order H(grad curl)-nonconforming but H(curl)-conforming finite elements are constructed, which are extended to nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang

We consider the problem of covering multiple submodular constraints. Given a finite ground set $N$, a cost function $c: N \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$, $r$ monotone submodular functions $f_1,f_2,\ldots,f_r$ over $N$ and requirements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Tanvi Bajpai , Chandra Chekuri , Pooja Kulkarni

In this paper, we introduce a mixed integer quadratic formulation for the congested variant of the partial set covering location problem, which involves determining a subset of facility locations to open and efficiently allocating customers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Alice Calamita , Ivana Ljubić , Laura Palagi

A variant of the well-known Set Covering Problem is studied in this paper, where subsets of a collection have to be selected, and pairwise conflicts among subsets of items exist. The selection of each subset has a cost, and the inclusion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

Budgeted uncertainty sets have been established as a major influence on uncertainty modeling for robust optimization problems. A drawback of such sets is that the budget constraint only restricts the global amount of cost increase that can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Marc Goerigk , Stefan Lendl

In this paper, we study a method for finding robust solutions to multiobjective optimization problems under uncertainty. We follow the set-based minmax approach for handling the uncertainties which leads to a certain set optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Gabriele Eichfelder , Ernest Quintana

We consider a bilevel continuous knapsack problem where the leader controls the capacity of the knapsack and the follower chooses an optimal packing according to his own profits, which may differ from those of the leader. To this bilevel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Christoph Buchheim , Dorothee Henke

In this paper we consider multidimensional mechanism design problem for selling discrete substitutable items to a group of buyers. Previous work on this problem mostly focus on stochastic description of valuations used by the seller.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Maciej Drwal