Polynomial Optimization: Tightening RLT-Based Branch-and-Bound Schemes with Conic Constraints.

Bissan Ghaddar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4695-200X

Brais González-Rodríguez Raúl Alvite-Pazó Samuel Alvite-Pazó Bissan Ghaddar Julio González-Díaz Polynomial Optimization: Tightening RLT-Based Branch-and-Bound Schemes with Conic Constraints. 12 2025 January 204 J. Optim. Theory Appl. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-024-02558-4 db/journals/jota/jota204.html#GonzalezRodriguezAAGG25 streams/journals/jota

Gita Taherkhani Bissan Ghaddar Sibel A. Alumur Yacheng Hsu Hub Network Design for Strategic Autonomous Shuttle Deployment. 16602-16618 2025 October 26 IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. 10 https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2025.3574530 db/journals/tits/tits26.html#TaherkhaniGAH25 streams/journals/tits

Arash Dehghan Mucahit Cevik Merve Bodur Bissan Ghaddar Joint Matching and Pricing for Crowd-shipping with In-store Customers. 2025 July abs/2507.01749 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.01749 db/journals/corr/corr2507.html#abs-2507-01749 streams/journals/corr

Bissan Ghaddar Preface: special issue on artificial intelligence for operations research. 557-558 2024 November 62 INFOR Inf. Syst. Oper. Res. 4 https://doi.org/10.1080/03155986.2024.2406729 db/journals/infor/infor62.html#Ghaddar24 streams/journals/infor

Bissan Ghaddar Ivana Ljubic Yuying Qiu Three network design problems for community energy storage. 420-445 2024 84 Networks 4 https://doi.org/10.1002/net.22242 db/journals/networks/networks84.html#GhaddarLQ24

Shixuan Hou Jie Gao 0010 Yili Tang Bissan Ghaddar Dynamic Predictive Matching Framework for Crowd-Sourced Delivery Service. 1174-1181 2024 ITSC https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC58415.2024.10919739 conf/itsc/2024 db/conf/itsc/itsc2024.html#Hou0TG24

Zhenan Fan Bissan Ghaddar Xinglu Wang Linzi Xing Yong Zhang 0004 Zirui Zhou Artificial Intelligence for Operations Research: Revolutionizing the Operations Research Process. 2024 abs/2401.03244 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.03244 db/journals/corr/corr2401.html#abs-2401-03244

Bissan Ghaddar Ignacio Gómez-Casares Julio González-Díaz Brais González-Rodríguez Beatriz Pateiro-López Sofía Rodríguez-Ballesteros Learning for Spatial Branching: An Algorithm Selection Approach. 1024-1043 2023 35 INFORMS J. Comput. 5 https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2022.0090 db/journals/informs/informs35.html#GhaddarGGGPR23

Olga Kuryatnikova Bissan Ghaddar Daniel K. Molzahn Two-Stage Robust Quadratic Optimization with Equalities and Its Application to Optimal Power Flow. 2830-2857 2023 December 33 SIAM J. Optim. 4 https://doi.org/10.1137/22m1469651 db/journals/siamjo/siamjo33.html#KuryatnikovaGM23

Rindranirina Ramamonjison Timothy T. L. Yu Raymond Li Haley Li Giuseppe Carenini Bissan Ghaddar Shiqi He Mahdi Mostajabdaveh Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi Zirui Zhou Yong Zhang 0004 NL4Opt Competition: Formulating Optimization Problems Based on Their Natural Language Descriptions. 2023 abs/2303.08233 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.08233 db/journals/corr/corr2303.html#abs-2303-08233

Gopika Premsankar Bissan Ghaddar Energy-Efficient Service Placement for Latency-Sensitive Applications in Edge Computing. 17926-17937 2022 9 IEEE Internet Things J. 18 https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2022.3162581 db/journals/iotj/iotj9.html#PremsankarG22

Bo Lin 0004 Bissan Ghaddar Jatin Nathwani Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem With Time Windows. 11528-11538 2022 23 IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2021.3105232 db/journals/tits/tits23.html#LinGN22

Bissan Ghaddar Ignacio Gómez-Casares Julio González-Díaz Brais González-Rodríguez Beatriz Pateiro-López Sofía Rodríguez-Ballesteros Learning for Spatial Branching: An Algorithm Selection Approach. 2022 abs/2204.10834 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.10834 db/journals/corr/corr2204.html#abs-2204-10834

Brais González-Rodríguez Raúl Alvite-Pazó Samuel Alvite-Pazó Bissan Ghaddar Julio González-Díaz Polynomial Optimization: Enhancing RLT relaxations with Conic Constraints. 2022 abs/2208.05608 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.05608 db/journals/corr/corr2208.html#abs-2208-05608

Claudio Gambella Bissan Ghaddar Joe Naoum-Sawaya Optimization problems for machine learning: A survey. 807-828 2021 290 Eur. J. Oper. Res. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.08.045 db/journals/eor/eor290.html#GambellaGN21

Rindranirina Ramamonjison Timothy T. L. Yu Raymond Li Haley Li Giuseppe Carenini Bissan Ghaddar Shiqi He Mahdi Mostajabdaveh Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi Zirui Zhou Yong Zhang 0004 NL4Opt Competition: Formulating Optimization Problems Based on Their Natural Language Descriptions. 189-203 2021 NeurIPS (Competition and Demos) https://proceedings.mlr.press/v220/ramamonjison22a.html conf/nips/2022demo db/conf/nips/demo2022.html#RamamonjisonYLLCGHMBZZ21

Bo Lin 0004 Bissan Ghaddar Ada Hurst Text Mining Undergraduate Engineering Programs' Applications: the Role of Gender, Nationality, and Socio-economic Status. 2021 abs/2107.14034 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14034 db/journals/corr/corr2107.html#abs-2107-14034

Gopika Premsankar Bissan Ghaddar Mariusz Slabicki Mario Di Francesco Optimal Configuration of LoRa Networks in Smart Cities. 7243-7254 2020 16 IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics 12 https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2020.2967123 db/journals/tii/tii16.html#PremsankarGSF20

Bo Lin 0004 Bissan Ghaddar Jatin Nathwani Deep Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. 2020 abs/2010.02068 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02068 db/journals/corr/corr2010.html#abs-2010-02068

Xiaolong Kuang Bissan Ghaddar Joe Naoum-Sawaya Luis F. Zuluaga Alternative SDP and SOCP approximations for polynomial optimization. 153-175 2019 7 EURO J. Comput. Optim. 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13675-018-0101-2 db/journals/ejco/ejco7.html#KuangGNZ19

Bissan Ghaddar Rabih A. Jabr Power transmission network expansion planning: A semidefinite programming branch-and-bound approach. 837-844 2019 274 Eur. J. Oper. Res. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.10.035 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128910415 db/journals/eor/eor274.html#GhaddarJ19

Taha Selim Ustun S. M. Suhail Hussain Hannes Kirchhoff Bissan Ghaddar Kai Strunz Ioannis Lestas Data Standardization for Smart Infrastructure in First-Access Electricity Systems. 1790-1802 2019 107 Proc. IEEE 9 https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2019.2929621 db/journals/pieee/pieee107.html#UstunHKGSL19

Claudio Gambella Bissan Ghaddar Joe Naoum-Sawaya Optimization Models for Machine Learning: A Survey. 2019 abs/1901.05331 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05331 db/journals/corr/corr1901.html#abs-1901-05331

Bissan Ghaddar Joe Naoum-Sawaya High dimensional data classification and feature selection using support vector machines. 993-1004 2018 265 Eur. J. Oper. Res. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.08.040 db/journals/eor/eor265.html#GhaddarN18

Claudio Gambella Joe Naoum-Sawaya Bissan Ghaddar The Vehicle Routing Problem with Floating Targets: Formulation and Solution Approaches. 554-569 2018 30 INFORMS J. Comput. 3 https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2017.0800 db/journals/informs/informs30.html#GambellaNG18

Gopika Premsankar Bissan Ghaddar Mario Di Francesco Rudi Verago Efficient placement of edge computing devices for vehicular applications in smart cities. 1-9 2018 NOMS https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406256 conf/noms/2018 db/conf/noms/noms2018.html#PremsankarGFV18

Bissan Ghaddar Mathieu Claeys Martin Mevissen Bradley J. Eck Polynomial optimization for water networks: Global solutions for the valve setting problem. 450-459 2017 261 Eur. J. Oper. Res. 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.03.011 db/journals/eor/eor261.html#GhaddarCME17

Joe Naoum-Sawaya Bissan Ghaddar Cutting plane approach for the maximum flow interdiction problem. 1553-1569 2017 68 J. Oper. Res. Soc. 12 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41274-017-0185-8 db/journals/jors/jors68.html#Naoum-SawayaG17

Bissan Ghaddar Nizar Sakr Yaw Asiedu Spare parts stocking analysis using genetic programming. 136-144 2016 252 Eur. J. Oper. Res. 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.12.041 db/journals/eor/eor252.html#GhaddarSA16

Bissan Ghaddar Juan C. Vera 0001 Miguel F. Anjos A dynamic inequality generation scheme for polynomial programming. 21-57 2016 156 Math. Program. 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-015-0870-9 db/journals/mp/mp156.html#GhaddarVA16

Bissan Ghaddar Joe Naoum-Sawaya Akihiro Kishimoto Nicole Taheri Bradley Eck A Lagrangian decomposition approach for the pump scheduling problem in water networks. 490-501 2015 241 Eur. J. Oper. Res. 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.08.033 db/journals/eor/eor241.html#GhaddarNKTE15

Joe Naoum-Sawaya Bissan Ghaddar Ernesto Arandia Bradley Eck Simulation-optimization approaches for water pump scheduling and pipe replacement problems. 293-306 2015 246 Eur. J. Oper. Res. 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.04.028 db/journals/eor/eor246.html#Naoum-SawayaGAE15

Riccardo Guidotti Andrea Sassi Michele Berlingerio Alessandra Pascale Bissan Ghaddar Social or Green? A Data-Driven Approach for More Enjoyable Carpooling. 842-847 2015 ITSC https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2015.142 conf/itsc/2015 db/conf/itsc/itsc2015.html#GuidottiSBPG15

Bissan Ghaddar Jakub Marecek Martin Mevissen Optimal Power Flow as a Polynomial Optimization Problem. 2014 abs/1404.3626 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3626 db/journals/corr/corr1404.html#GhaddarMM14

Bissan Ghaddar Joe Naoum-Sawaya Environmentally friendly facility location with market competition. 899-908 2012 63 J. Oper. Res. Soc. 7 https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2011.95 db/journals/jors/jors63.html#GhaddarN12

Bissan Ghaddar New Conic Optimization Techniques for Solving Binary Polynomial Programming Problems. 2011 University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada https://hdl.handle.net/10012/6139 https://www.base-search.net/Record/1c5eb9ad039f520f3527d0790f88c6bc076568144cb85fb49177d5fb19df1c5b base-search.net (ftunivwaterloo:oai:uwspace.uwaterloo.ca:10012/6139)

Bissan Ghaddar Miguel F. Anjos Frauke Liers A branch-and-cut algorithm based on semidefinite programming for the minimum <i>k</i>-partition problem. 155-174 2011 188 Ann. Oper. Res. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-008-0481-4 db/journals/anor/anor188.html#GhaddarAL11

Bissan Ghaddar Juan C. Vera 0001 Miguel F. Anjos Second-Order Cone Relaxations for Binary Quadratic Polynomial Programs. 391-414 2011 21 SIAM J. Optim. 1 https://doi.org/10.1137/100802190 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58051150 db/journals/siamjo/siamjo21.html#GhaddarVA11

Bissan Ghaddar Juan C. Vera 0001 Miguel F. Anjos An Iterative Scheme for Valid Polynomial Inequality Generation in Binary Polynomial Programming. 207-222 2011 IPCO https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20807-2_17 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58051147 conf/ipco/2011 db/conf/ipco/ipco2011.html#GhaddarVA11

Joe Naoum-Sawaya Bissan Ghaddar A Fuzzy Adaptation Method for Improving Link Utilization and Reducing Network Delays in IEEE 802.11e Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. 203-222 2010 9 Ad Hoc Sens. Wirel. Networks 3-4 http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/journals/ahswn-home/ahswn-issue-contents/ahswn-volume-9-number-3-4/ahswn-9-3-4-p-203-222/ db/journals/ahswn/ahswn9.html#Naoum-SawayaG10

Hassan Artail Haïdar Safa Joe Naoum-Sawaya Bissan Ghaddar Sami Khawam A simple recursive scheme for adjusting the contention window size in IEEE 802.11e wireless ad hoc networks. 3789-3803 2006 29 Comput. Commun. 18 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2006.06.016 db/journals/comcom/comcom29.html#ArtailSNGK06

Joe Naoum-Sawaya Bissan Ghaddar Sami Khawam Haïdar Safa Hassan Artail Zaher Dawy Adaptive approach for QoS support in IEEE 802.11e wireless LAN. 167-173 2005 WiMob (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/WIMOB.2005.1512866 conf/wimob/2005-2 db/conf/wimob/wimob2005-2.html#Naoum-SawayaGKSAD05 Sibel A. Alumur Raúl Alvite-Pazó Samuel Alvite-Pazó Miguel F. Anjos Ernesto Arandia Hassan Artail Yaw Asiedu Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi Michele Berlingerio Merve Bodur Giuseppe Carenini Mucahit Cevik Mathieu Claeys Zaher Dawy Arash Dehghan Bradley EckBradley J. Eck Zhenan Fan Mario Di Francesco Claudio Gambella Jie Gao 0010 Ignacio Gómez-Casares Julio González-Díaz Brais González-Rodríguez Riccardo Guidotti Shiqi He Shixuan Hou Yacheng Hsu Ada Hurst S. M. Suhail Hussain Rabih A. Jabr Sami Khawam Hannes Kirchhoff Akihiro Kishimoto Xiaolong Kuang Olga Kuryatnikova Ioannis Lestas Haley Li Raymond Li Frauke Liers Bo Lin 0004 Ivana Ljubic Jakub Marecek Martin Mevissen Daniel K. Molzahn Mahdi Mostajabdaveh Joe Naoum-Sawaya Jatin Nathwani Alessandra Pascale Beatriz Pateiro-López Gopika Premsankar Yuying Qiu Rindranirina Ramamonjison Sofía Rodríguez-Ballesteros Haïdar Safa Nizar Sakr Andrea Sassi Mariusz Slabicki Kai Strunz Nicole Taheri Gita Taherkhani Yili Tang Taha Selim Ustun Juan C. Vera 0001 Rudi Verago Xinglu Wang Linzi Xing Timothy T. L. Yu Yong Zhang 0004 Zirui Zhou Luis Fernando ZuluagaLuis F. Zuluaga