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We study iterative methods for (two-stage) robust combinatorial optimization problems with discrete uncertainty. We propose a machine-learning-based heuristic to determine starting scenarios that provide strong lower bounds. To this end, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Marc Goerigk , Jannis Kurtz

Two-stage bipartite matching is a fundamental problem of optimization under uncertainty introduced by Feng, Niazadeh, and Saberi (2021), who study it under the stochastic and adversarial paradigms of uncertainty. We propose a method to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Billy Jin , Will Ma

We investigate a simple approximation scheme, based on overlapping linear decision rules, for solving data-driven two-stage distributionally robust optimization problems with the type-$\infty$ Wasserstein ambiguity set. Our main result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Dimitris Bertsimas , Shimrit Shtern , Bradley Sturt

Two-stage stochastic linear optimization is known to be #P-hard when all involved random variables are independently and uniformly distributed over intervals, even with fixed recourse. We show that this problem is actually #P-hard in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Christoph Buchheim

This paper presents a new exact method to calculate worst-case parameter realizations in two-stage robust optimization problems with categorical or binary-valued uncertain data. Traditional exact algorithms for these problems, notably…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Anirudh Subramanyam

We consider a general class of two-stage distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems where the ambiguity set is constrained by fixed marginal probability laws that are not necessarily discrete. We derive primal and dual formulations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

We study two-stage stochastic optimization problems with random recourse, where the adaptive decisions are multiplied with the uncertain parameters in both the objective function and the constraints. To mitigate the computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Xiangyi Fan , Grani A. Hanasusanto

In this paper, we study a two-stage stochastic version of the assignment game, which is a fundamental cooperative game. Given an initial setting, the set of players may change in the second stage according to some probability distribution,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Laura Sanità , Lucy Verberk

This work uniquely combines an affine linear decision rule known from adjustable robustness with min-max-regret robustness. By doing so, the advantages of both concepts can be obtained with an adjustable solution that is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Kerstin Schneider , Helene Krieg , Dimitri Nowak , Karl-Heinz Küfer

This work studies equilibrium problems under uncertainty where firms maximize their profits in a robust way when selling their output. Robust optimization plays an increasingly important role when best guaranteed objective values are to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Christian Biefel , Frauke Liers , Jan Rolfes , Lars Schewe , Gregor Zöttl

We introduce the class of multistage stochastic optimization problems with a random number of stages. For such problems, we show how to write dynamic programming equations and detail the Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming algorithm to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Vincent Guigues

In this work we investigate the min-max-min robust optimization problem and the k-adaptability robust optimization problem for binary problems with uncertain costs. The idea of the first approach is to calculate a set of k feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jannis Kurtz

Two-stage robust optimization problems constitute one of the hardest optimization problem classes. One of the solution approaches to this class of problems is K-adaptability. This approach simultaneously seeks the best partitioning of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Esther Julien , Krzysztof Postek , Ş. İlker Birbil

We consider robust combinatorial optimization problems where the decision maker can react to a scenario by choosing from a finite set of $k$ solutions. This approach is appropriate for decision problems under uncertainty where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk , Jannis Kurtz , Michael Poss

This paper deals with a robust recoverable approach to 0-1 programming problems. It is assumed that a solution constructed in the first stage can be modified to some extent in the second stage. This modification consists in choosing a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Mmikita Hradovich , Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

We study decision rule approximations for generic multi-stage robust linear optimization problems. We consider linear decision rules for the case when the objective coefficients, the recourse matrices, and the right-hand sides are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Guanglin Xu , Grani A. Hanasusanto

Endogenous, i.e. decision-dependent, uncertainty has received increased interest in the stochastic programming community. In the robust optimization context, however, it has rarely been considered. This work addresses multistage robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Wei Feng , Yiping Feng , Qi Zhang

We consider the robust version of items selection problem, in which the goal is to choose representatives from a family of sets, preserving constraints on the allowed items' combinations. We prove NP-hardness of the deterministic version,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Maciej Drwal

The cross-dock door design problem consists of deciding the strip and stack doors and nominal capacity of an entity under uncertainty. Inbound commodity flow from origin nodes is assigned to the strip doors, it is consolidated in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Laureano F. Escudero , M. Araceli Garín , Aitziber Unzueta

Multi-stage optimization under uncertainty techniques can be used to solve long-term management problems. Although many optimization modeling language extensions as well as computational environments have been proposed, the acceptance of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Ronald Hochreiter