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Day 1 March 9

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
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Conference Dinner

Day 2

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