Polyhedral Stochastic Integer Programming

Series
ACO Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
ISyE Executive Classroom
Speaker
Shabbir Ahmed – Georgia Tech, ISyE
Organizer
Annette Rohrs
I will describe a simple scheme for generating a valid inequality for a stochastic integer programs from a given valid inequality for its deterministic counterpart. Applications to stochastic lot-sizing problems will be discussed. This is joint work with Yongpei Guan and George Nemhauser and is based on the following two papers (1) Y. Guan, S. Ahmed and G.L. Nemhauser. "Cutting planes for multi-stage stochastic integer programs," Operations Research, vol.57, pp.287-298, 2009 (2) Y. Guan, S. Ahmed and G. L. Nemhauser. "Sequential pairing of mixed integer inequalities," Discrete Optimization, vol.4, pp.21-39, 2007 This is a joint DOS/ACO seminar.