Tuesday, July 11

CP12
Optimization and Operations Research

4:00 PM -6:00 PM
El Moro 1
Chair: William W. Hager, University of Florida, USA

4:00-4:12 Prima-Dual Method and Triality Theory for Nonsmooth Global Optimization

David Yang Gao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

4:15-4:27 Using Local Information in Global Optimization

Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy; and University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

4:30-4:42 Minimizing a Quadratic Over a Sphere

William W. Hager, University of Florida, USA

4:45-4:57 On the Distance to Ill Posedness and Stopping Rules in Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Programming

Hugo J. Lara, Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado, Venezuela

5:00-5:12 Warm Start Strategies in Interior-Point Methods for Linear Programming

E. Alper Yildirim, Cornell University, USA; and Stephen J. Wright, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Cancelled 5:15-5:27 Set-Theoretic Methods in Analysis and Optimization

Efim A. Galperin, University of Quebec at Montréal, Canada

5:30-5:42 Project Management in Information Technology

Oscar Vazquez-Melendez, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg, USA

5:45-5:57 Issues in Multidisciplinary Optimization Problems

Surya N. Patnaik, Ohio Aerospace Institute, USA; Rula M. Coroneos and Dale A. Hopkins, NASA-Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, USA

6:00-6:12 Optimal Operation of a System With One Hydro and Many Thermal Plants

Humberto José Bortolossi and Carlos Tomei, Pontificía Universidade Católida do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Mário Veiga Pereira, PRS, Brazil