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Day 1 March 9 |
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Time | |||||
9:00am – 9:10am | Opening ceremony Room 2335 | ||||
9:10am – 10:00am | Keynote 1 Room 2335 | ||||
10:00am – 10:15am | Break | ||||
10:15am – 11:45am | Session 1: Discrete Optimization 1 Room 2335 | Session 2: Energy Systems 1 Room 2325 | |||
Sergiy Butenko, Mykyta Makovenko and Miltiades Pardalos | A Hierarchy of Nonconvex Continuous Reformulations for Discrete Optimization | Anestis G. Anastasiadis, Alexios Lekidis, Ioannis Pierros and Kostas Hrissagis | Energy cost optimization for multi-carrier systems with energy hubs | ||
Vladimir Boginski | Motzkin-Straus Formulation for Maximum Clique Problem: Minimum Potential Energy Interpretation and Extensions | Ang Li, Jiming Peng and Lei Fan | Enhanced Optimization Modelling, Theory, and Algorithms for Battery Energy Storage System in Electricity Market | ||
Yajun Lu, Zhuqi Miao, Parisa Sahraeian and Baski Balasundaram | On Atomic Cliques in Temporal Graphs | Qipeng Phil Zheng | A Nested Cross Decomposition Algorithm for Power System Capacity Expansion with Multiscale Uncertainties | ||
11:45am – 1:30pm | Lunch | ||||
1:30pm – 3:00pm | Session 3: Machine Learning Room 2335 | Session 4: Environment and Policy Room 2325 | |||
Hongcheng Liu | Training generalizable quantized deep neural nets | Anna Nagurney, Dana Hassani, Oleg Nivievskyi and Pavlo Martyshev | Exchange Rates and Multicommodity International Trade: Insights from Spatial Price Equilibrium Modeling with Policy Instruments via Variational Inequalities | ||
Petros Xanthopoulos | One class relaxed support vector machine for novelty detection | Neng Fan | Integrating economic, environmental, and social impacts into optimal design of a biomass supply chain for semi-arid areas | ||
George Lan | Policy optimization over general state and action spaces | Shiping Mao, Marios Dominikos Kremantzis, Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos and George Vlontzos | R&D Performance Evaluation in the Chinese Food Manufacturing Industry Based on Dynamic DEA in the COVID-19 Era | ||
3:00pm – 3:30pm | Break | ||||
3:30pm – 5:00pm | Session 5: Stochastic Optimization Room 2335 | Session 6 Healthcare Room 2325 | |||
Pavlo Krokhmal and Masoud Eshghali | Risk Optimization in Networks and Discrete Systems | Clayton Commander, Arsenios Tsokas and Panos Pardalos | Modeling Practice Efficiency Using Social Network Analysis | ||
Haoming Shen and Ruiwei Jiang | Value of Stochastic Solution with Right-Hand Side Uncertainty | Faraz Khoshbakhtian, Hamidreza Validi, Mario Ventresca, Dionne Aleman, Randy Giffen and Proton Rahman | Distance-based critical node detection for effective vaccine policies | ||
Yiling Zhang | integer programming approach for distributionally robust chance constraints with adjustable risk | *Stan Uryasev and Cheng Peng | Estimation of Conditional Distributions with Factor Model of Mixtures | ||
5:00pm – 6:00pm |
Posters |
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6:30pm – 8:30pm |
Conference Dinner |
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Day 2 |
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9:00am – 10:30am | Session 1: Discrete Optimization 2 Room 2335 | Session 2: Scheduling and Supply Chain Room 2325 | |||
*Ilias Kotsireas | Optimization and metaheuristic perspectives in hard combinatorial problems | Erhun Kundakcioglu | Select, Schedule, and Route Foster Care Visitation | ||
Alla Kammerdiner, Alexander Semenov and Eduardo Pasiliao | The variable neighborhood search algorithms for the multidimensional assignment problem | Chrysafis Vogiatzis | Identifying interface points in illicit supply chains | ||
*Jose Walteros, Demetrios Papazaharias and Moises Sudit | Robust Task Planning Of Adversarial Games: An Integer Programming Approach | Juan Manuel Restrepo-Florez, Christos Maravelias and David Rothamer | A SUPERSTRUCTURE BASED OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE DESIGN OF ADVANCED BIOFUELS | ||
10:30am – 10:45am | Short break | ||||
10:45am – 11:35am | Keynote 2 Room 2335 | ||||
11:35am – 1:30pm | Lunch | ||||
1:30pm – 3:00pm | Session 3: Nonlinear Optimization Room 2335 | Session 4: Energy Systems 2 Room 2325 | |||
Oleg Prokopyev, Jourdain Lamperski and Luca Wrabetz | Min-max-min Optimization with Smooth and Strongly Convex Objectives | Burak Eksioglu | Energy Savings through Platooning in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles | ||
Evren Mert Turan, Johannes Jaeschke and Rohit Kannan | Improved discretization based lower bounding methods for semi-infinite programming | Mariana Resener | Optimization in Electric Power Distribution Systems: Challenges and Opportunities | ||
Maude Josee Blondin | Decentralized optimization algorithm for multiagent systems with weighted priorities | Nomanullah Nomanullah and Mujahid Syed | Multi-Objective Optimization of District Cooling System | ||
3:00pm – 3:30pm | Break | ||||
3:30pm – 5:00pm | Session 5: Global Optimization Room 2335 | Session 6: Telecommunication Room 2325 | |||
William Trevena, Alexander Semenov, Michael Hirsch, Panos Pardalos and Ilias Kotsireas | Solving Large Systems of Nonlinear Equations with Global Optimization in the Cloud | Andrew Murray, Ashwin Arulselvan, Michael Cashmore and Swarup Mohalik | Datacenter Optimisation for 5G Slicing via Column Generation | ||
Rohit Kannan, Harsha Nagarajan and Deepjyoti Deka | Learning to Accelerate Partitioning Algorithms for the Global Optimization of Nonconvex Quadratically-Constrained Quadratic Programs | Mohammed Al Saafin, Mujahid Syed, Uthman Baroudi and Anas Al-Ghazi | Location Privacy Preservation Mathematical Model for the Sink Node Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks | ||
Steve Huntsman | Parallel black-box optimization of expensive high-dimensional multimodal functions via magnitude |