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  • Issue 107 - 2025-01-01

    • Andrea Lodi – ML-Augmented MIP Solving
    • Axel Parmentier – Combinatorial Optimization Augmented Machine Learning: A Brief Introduction with Applications in Operations Research
  • Issue 106 - 2023-09-01

    • Mohit Singh and Santosh S. Vempala – Group Fairness in Optimization and Clustering
    • Swati Gupta, Vijay Kamble and Jad Salem – Algorithmic Challenges in Ensuring Temporal Fairness in Online Decision-Making
    • Jonathan Eckstein – The Evolution of Mathematical Programming Computation
  • Issue 105 - 2022-05-01

    • Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li – The Delphi Model for Epidemiological Predictions for COVID-19 and Its Applications
  • Issue 104 - 2018-06-01

    • Sebastian Sager – Optimization and Clinical Decision Support
  • Issue 103 - 2017-09-01

    • Matthew J. Saltzman – A Lightning Tour of the Optimization Modeling Software Landscape
    • Iain Dunning, Joey Huchette, and Miles Lubin – JuMP: An algebraic modeling language in Julia
    • Stuart Mitchell – PuLP
    • Steven Diamond and Stephen Boyd – Convex Optimization in Python with CVXPY
    • Dirk Schumacher – Mixed integer linear programming in R with ompr
    • Thorsten Koch – The ZIMPL modeling language
  • Issue 102 - 2017-06-01

    • Henry Wolkowicz – Obituary for Jonathan M. Borwein
    • Marida Bertocchi and David P. Morton – Obituary for Jitka Dupacova
    • Jorge Nocedal – Obituary for Roger Fletcher
    • Ignacio Grossmann – Obituary for Chris Floudas
    • Andrzej Ruszscynski – Obituary for Andras Prekopa
    • Alan J. Hoffman – Obituary for Philip Starr Wolfe
  • Issue 101 - 2016-09-01

    • Volker Kaibel, Jon Lee, Jeff Linderoth – You have to figure out who your customer is going to be - An interview with Bob Bixby
    • Martin Grötschel – Comments on Bob Bixby ’s interview: Mathematics and the Real World
    • Bill Cook – Comments on Bob Bixby ’s interview: Beauty in the Details
  • Issue 100 - 2016-05-01

    • Frank Vallentin – Optimization in discrete geometry
    • Etienne de Klerk – Computer-assisted proofs and semidefinite programming
    • Henry Cohn – When are semidefinite programming bounds sharp?
  • Issue 99 - 2015-12-01

    • Sven Leyffer – It’s to Solve Problems - An Interview with Roger Fletcher
    • Philippe Toint – Impressions of Roger’s Interview
    • Frank E. Curtis – Young Researchers Would Be Wise to Read this Interview!
    • Coralia Cartis, Andreas Griewank, Philippe Toint and Ya-xiang Yuan – Obituary for Mike Powell
    • Jong-Shi Pang – Obituary for Che-Lin Su
  • Issue 98 - 2015-07-01

    • Sanjeeb Dash and Jean-Francois Puget – On quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems defined on Chimera graphs
    • Matthias Troyer – Quantum annealing and the D-Wave devices
    • Egon Balas – In memoriam Manfred Padberg
  • Issue 97 - 2015-04-01

    • Thomas Rothvoss – The matching polytope has exponential extension complexity
    • Jack Edmonds – A glimpse of heaven is feeling you understand something beautiful
    • Daniel Bienstock – Mathematical Programming Computation
  • Issue 96 - 2015-01-01

    • Warren B. Powell – Bridging the Fields of Stochastic Optimization
    • Andrzej Ruszczynski – Few Remarks on Stochastic Dynamic Optimization
  • Issue 95 - 2014-10-01

    • Marguerite Frank – The History of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm
    • Martin Jaggi and Zaid Harchaoui – The Recent Revival of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm
  • Issue 94 - 2014-05-01

    • Ruud Brekelmans, Carel Eijgenraam, Dick den Hertog and Kees Roos – A Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization Approach to Optimize Dike Heights in the Netherlands
    • Michael Trick – The Franz Edelman Award and Optimization: A Wonderful Partnership
  • Issue 93 - 2013-12-01

    • Daniel Bienstock – Progress on solving power flower problems
    • Larry Snyder – Multi-period optimal power flow problems
  • Issue 92 - 2013-10-01

    • Robert D. Nowak, Benjamin Recht, and Joel A. Tropp – Report from the 2013 SILO Workshop
    • Stephen J. Wright – Remarks on Optimization in SILO
  • Issue 91 - 2013-05-01

    • Nikkhil Bansal, Matteo Fischetti, Giuseppe Lancia, Adam N. Letchford, Andrea Lodi, Michele Monaci, Ulrich Pferschy, David Pisinger, Juan-José Salazar-Gonzáles, Maxim Sviridenko, and Paolo Toth – Alberto Caprara (1968-2012): Scientific Contributions
  • Issue 90 - 2012-12-01

    • Jens Vygen – New approximation algorithms for the TSP
  • Issue 89 - 2012-08-01

    • Immanuel M. Bomze, Mirjam Dür, and Chung-Piaw Teo – Copositive Optimization
    • Monique Laurent – Copositive vs. moment hierarchies for stable sets
  • Issue 88 - 2012-05-01

    • Coralia Cartis, Nicholas I. M. Gould and Philippe L. Toint – How Much Patience Do You Have? A Worst-Case Perspective on Smooth Nonconvex Optimization
    • Yurii Nesterov – How to Make the Gradients Small
  • Issue 87 - 2011-11-01

    • Jesús A. De Loera – New Insights into the Complexity and Geometry of Linear Optimization
  • Issue 86 - 2011-08-01

    • Gianpaolo Oriolo, Gautier Stauffer and Paolo Ventura – Stable Sets in Claw-Free Graphs: Recent Achievements and Future Challenges
    • Manfred W. Padberg – Node Packings in Graphs and Claw Free Graphs
  • Issue 85 - 2011-04-01

    • Volker Kaibel – Extended Formulations in Combinatorial Optimization
    • Laurence A. Wolsey – Using Extended Formulations in Practice
    • Mihalis Yannakakis – On Extended LP Formulations
  • Issue 84 - 2010-10-01

    • Grace Hechme-Doukopoulos, Sandrine Brignol-Charousset, Jérome Malick, Claude Lemaréchal – The short-term electricity production management problem at EDF
    • Antonio Frangioni – Unit Commitment problems: A tale in Lagrangian optimization
  • Issue 83 - 2010-07-01

    • James Ostrowski, Jeff Linderoth, Fabrizio Rossi and Stefano Smriglio – Solving Steiner Triple Covering Problems
  • Issue 82 - 2010-04-01

    • Jay Sethuraman – Mechanism Design for House Allocation Problems: A Short Introduction
    • Garud Iyengar and Anuj Kumar – Parametric Network Flows in Adword Auctions
  • Issue 81 - 2009-12-01

    • Jesús A. De Loera – Counting and Estimating Lattice Points: Tools from Algebra, Analysis, Convexity, and Probability
    • Gilles Pesant – Counting and Estimating Lattice Points: Special Polytopes for Branching Heuristics in Constraint Programming
  • Issue 80 - 2009-09-01

    • Santanu S. Dey and Andrea Tramontani – Recent Developments in Multi-Row Cuts
  • Issue 79 - 2009-05-01

    • Katya Scheinberg – Geometry in model-based algorithms for derivative-free unconstrained optimization
    • Jorge Nocedal – Finding the middle ground between first and second-order methods
  • Issue 78 - 2008-11-01

    • Yurii Nesterov – How to advance in Structural Convex Optimization
    • Alexandre d′Aspremont – Smooth Semidefinite Optimization
    • Javier Pena – Nash equilibria computation via smoothing techniques
  • Issue 77 - 2008-07-01

    • Matthew J. Saltzmann – Notes on a Panel Discussion on Benchmarks at INFORMS Puerto Rico, July 2007
    • Francois Margot – Testing Cut Generators for MILP
  • Issue 76 - 2008-03-01

    • Marco Locatelli and Fabio Schoen – Structure Prediction and Global Optimization
  • Issue 75 - 2007-12-01

    • Pierre Bonami, John J. Forrest, Jon Lee and Andreas Wächter – Rapid Development of an Open-source Minlp Solver with COIN-OR
  • Issue 74 - 2007-05-01

    • Tim Roughgarden – Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy
  • Issue 73 - 2007-01-01

    • Gerhard J. Woeginger – Match, match, match, and match again
  • Issue 72 - 2006-01-01

    • Matteo Fischetti and Andrea Lodi – Local Branching: Basics and Extensions
  • Issue 71 - 2004-03-01

    • Bertrand Guenin – Binary Clutters and Multicommodity Flows
    • Robert A. Bosch – Monochromatic Squares
  • Issue 70 - 2003-06-01

    • Gérard Cornuéjols – The Strong Perfect Graph Theorem
    • Robert A. Bosch – Constructing Nontransitive Dice
  • Issue 69 - 2003-01-01

    • Robert Weismantel – Primal Integer Programming
  • Issue 68 - 2002-10-01

    • Gerhard J. Woeginger – Exact algorithms for NP-hard problems
  • Issue 67 - 2002-04-01

    • Robert A. Bosch – Digit Tiles
    • Robert A. Bosch – Two Domino Problems Revisited
  • Issue 66 - 2001-10-01

    • Michael C. Ferris, Gábor Pataki and Stefan Schmieta – Solving the seymour problem
  • Issue 65 - 2001-05-01

    • Cor A. J. Hurkens and Gerhard J. Woeginger – Solution of a weighting problem
    • Stephen J. Wright – Solving Optimization Problems on Computational Grids
    • Robert A. Bosch – Painting by Numbers
  • Issue 64 - 2000-10-01

    • Lisa Fleischer – Recent Progress in Submodular Function Minimization
    • Robert A. Bosch – Lights Out
  • Issue 63 - 2000-01-01

    • Robert A. Bosch – ‘Set’less Collections of SET Cards
  • Issue 62 - 1999-06-01

    • Martin Grötschel – Characterizations of Perfect Graphs
    • Robert A. Bosch – Peaceably Coexisting Armies of Queens
  • Issue 61 - 1999-03-01

    • Eva K. Lee, Richard J. Gallagher and Marco Zaider – Planning Implants of Radionuclides for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer: An Application of Mixed Integer Programming
    • Robert A. Bosch – Maximizing Vitality
  • Issue 60 - 1998-12-01

    • Robert A. Bosch – A Pentomino Exclusion Problem
  • Issue 59 - 1998-10-01

    • Robert Michael Lewis, Virginia Torczon and Michael W. Trosset – Why Pattern Search Works
  • Issue 58 - 1998-06-01

    • David Karger – Randomization in Graph Optimization Problems: A Survey
    • Robert E. Bixby, Sebastian Ceria, Cassandra M. McZeal and Martin W.P. Savelsbergh – An Updated Mixed Integer Programming Library: MIPLIB 3.0
  • Issue 57 - 1998-03-01

    • Norbert Ascheuer, Martin Gröetschel, Jörg Raumbau and Nicola Kamin – Combinatorial Online Optimization in Practice
  • Issue 56 - 1997-12-01

    • John Dennis – Optimization: An essential tool for decision support
  • Issue 55 - 1997-10-01

    • – ISMP 97
  • Issue 54 - 1997-06-01

    • Susanne Albers – Competitive Online Algorithms
  • Issue 53 - 1997-03-01

    • John Dennis – Nominations for 1997 Elections
  • Issue 52 - 1996-12-01

    • János D. Pintér – Continuous Global Optimization Software: A Brief Review

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