Logistical chaos is not a new phenomenon in the supply-chain world, but the scale of upheaval caused by COVID-19 is something that stakeholders have never seen before: 94% of Fortune 1000 companies ...

Professor Ruszczynski’s interests are in the theory, numerical methods and applications of stochastic optimization. He is author of "Nonlinear Optimization", "Lectures on Stochastic programming", and ...

The School of Mathematics and Statistics is recognized for its contributions to research and applications of mathematical and statistical science, and it’s also known for expertise in mathematical and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Second-order conditions are given which are sufficient for a point to be a local minimizer for certain nonlinear programming problems defined ...

Specializing in multi-attribute decision analysis, Markov modeling, and utility modeling, as applied to medical decision making and medical cost-effectiveness. Gordon Hazen, PhD, is an operations ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Motivated by data-driven decision making and sampling problems, we investigate probabilistic interpretations of robust optimization (RO). We ...

In Part 1 of this series on optimization and recovery, we considered two limitations of optimization processes and the light they shed on pseudo-recovery. Let’s now think more about what the ...