Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications

1. Recent Progress in Modeling Unit Commitment Problems
Miguel F. Anjos

2. Portfolio Optimization with Combinatorial and Downside Return Constraints
Miguel A. Lejeune

3. An Initialization Strategy for High-Dimensional Surrogate-Based Expensive Black-Box Optimization
Rommel G. Regis

4. Smoothing and Regularization for Mixed-Integer Second-Order Cone Programming with Applications in Portfolio Optimization
Hande Y. Benson, Ümit Sağlam

5. The Duality Between the Perceptron Algorithm and the von Neumann Algorithm
Dan Li, Tamás Terlaky

Keywords: Mathematics, Continuous Optimization, Discrete Optimization, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Applications of Mathematics