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For three decades, carrier-phase observations have been used to obtain the most accurate location estimates using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). These estimates are computed by minimizing a nonlinear mixed-integer least-squares…

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We study the general integer programming (IP) problem of optimizing a separable convex function over the integer points of a polytope: $\min \{f(\mathbf{x}) \mid A\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{b}, \, \mathbf{l} \leq \mathbf{x} \leq \mathbf{u}, \,…

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Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming problems (MO-MINLPs) appear in several real-world applications, especially in the mechanical engineering field. To determine a good approximated Pareto front for this type of problems, we…

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When solving optimization problems with multiple objective functions we are often faced with the situation that one or several objective functions are non-convex or that we can not easily show the convexity of all functions involved. In…

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We study first-order methods (FOMs) for solving \emph{composite nonconvex nonsmooth} optimization with linear constraints. Recently, the lower complexity bounds of FOMs on finding an ($\varepsilon,\varepsilon$)-KKT point of the considered…

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We study a class of convex-concave min-max problems in which the coupled component of the objective is linear in at least one of the two decision vectors. We identify such problem structure as interpolating between the bilinearly and…

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We propose an extended variant of the reformulation and decomposition algorithm for solving a special class of mixed-integer bilevel linear programs (MIBLPs) where continuous and integer variables are involved in both upper- and lower-level…

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We propose an ODE approach to solving multiple choice polynomial programming (MCPP) after assuming that the optimum point can be approximated by the expected value of so-called thermal equilibrium as usually did in simulated annealing. The…

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Global optimization problems with a quasi-concave objective function and linear constraints are studied. We point out that various other classes of global optimization problems can be expressed in this way. We present two algorithms, which…

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Solving convex Semi-Infinite Programming (SIP) problems is challenging when the separation problem, i.e., the problem of finding the most violated constraint, is computationally hard. We propose to tackle this difficulty by solving the…

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We propose an exact algorithm for solving biobjective integer programming problems, which arise in various applications of operations research. The algorithm is based on solving Pascoletti-Serafini scalarizations to search specified regions…

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Solving optimization problems is the key to decision making in many real-life analytics applications. However, the coefficients of the optimization problems are often uncertain and dependent on external factors, such as future demand or…

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Hyperbolic polynomials is a class of real-roots polynomials that has wide range of applications in theoretical computer science. Each hyperbolic polynomial also induces a hyperbolic cone that is of particular interest in optimization due to…

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