Theory, Algorithms, and Experiments in Applied Optimization

A Case Study on Stochastic Security-Constrained Unit Commitment for Power Systems Models in Baden-W¨urtemberg.- New centrality indices in network analysis.- On Variants of PCGs: A Survey of Current Results and Open Problems.- imulation Experiments to Assess the Effectiveness of Randomization in Security Screening at Sports and Entertainment Venues.- Sentiment and Conflict Prediction in Urban Development: Data-Driven Approach.- Advanced Last-Mile Delivery: A Review of Truck-Drone and Multi-Vehicle Fleet Systems for Sustainable Logistics.- Flexible Pooling Pattern Design with Integer Programming.- Formulations of the Currency Portolio Optimization Problem and Sensitivity Analysis of a Currency Basket.- On the consistency and large deviations of the method of empirical means in stochastic programming problems.- Automatic tuning of the Skewed Kruskal algorithm.- Approximating the feasible criterion set in multi-criteria optimization problems described by equations in paral derivatives.- The (In)Famous Big-M Technique for Solving Bi-level Programs.- Optimization Techniques for Twin Support Vector Machines in Primal Space.- On the calculation of similarity measures for figures by nonsmooth global optimization.- Approximating multicriteria matrix game solution with finite sets.- Optimization of an e-commerce supply chain: middle-mile and last-mile.- Unified Presentation of the Generalized Ellipsoid Method.- Non-submodular Optimization and Nonconvex Relaxation.- DR-submodular maximization and its application.- Optimization of the design and control of an optical system with structural inhomogeneities.