The 4th ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL Workshop on Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis

Date: 25th – 30th March 2019
Venue: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), and the Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI), Kyushu University, held the fourth workshop on mathematical optimization and related fields in late March 2019. This international workshop was held in conjunction with an annual cooperative research meeting on optimization.

Schedule Overview

March 25th (Mon) – 26th (Tue): An Annual Cooperative Meeting "Optimization: Modeling and Algorithms"
March 27th (Wed) – 29th (Fri): The 4th ISM-ZIB-IMI MODAL Workshop on Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis
March 30th (Sat): Excursion

Program at a Glance

A more detailed scientific program including abstracts and presentation materials are available here. A printer-friendly booklet including program and abstracts is also available here.

March 27th (Auditorium)

Time	Speaker	Title
10:00 – 10:05	Satoshi Ito (ISM)	Opening Address
10:05 – 11:25	Julian Hall (Univ Edinburgh)	Linear Programming solvers: the state of the art
11:25 – 11:40		Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:15	Junji Nakano (ISM)	A New Metric for the Analysis of the Scientific Article Citation Network
12:15 – 13:45		Lunch
13:45 – 14:00	Thorsten Koch (ZIB)	The MODAL GasLab: Goals and state of affairs
14:00 – 14:50	Mladen Terzic & Frank Klimek (Open Grid Europe)	Optimized Execution of Dispatching: Building the future decision support system for nationwide gas transmission system operations
14:50 – 15:05		Coffee Break
15:05 – 15:40	Kai Hoppmann (ZIB)	Optimal operation of macroscopic gas flow over time
15:40 – 16:15	Felix Hennings (ZIB)	Controlling transient gas flow in complex pipeline intersection areas
16:15 – 16:30		Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:05	Yuki Maekawa (Hitachi)	Shunting Scheduling Method in a Railway Depot for Dealing with Changes in Operational Conditions
17:05 – 17:55	Ralf Borndörfer (ZIB)	The hypernetwork simplex algorithm and railway optimization

March 28th (Seminar Room 1)

Time	Speaker	Title
10:00 – 10:35	Katsuki Fujisawa (IMI & AIST-Tokyo Tech RWBC-OIL)	Current and future projects for CPS applications with ABCI —AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure—
10:35 – 11:10	Nozomi Hata (Kyushu Univ)	Mobility Optimization of Humans and Products on Cyber Physical System via Mathematical Programming
11:10 – 11:25		Coffee Break
11:25 – 12:00	Nariaki Tateiwa (Kyushu Univ)	Construction and Evaluation of the HEV Control Algorithm using a Black-Box simulator
12:00 – 12:35	Takufumi Yoshida (Toshiba)	Unit Commitment Problem Revisited in the course of Electricity Market Reform in Japan
12:35 – 14:05		Lunch
14:05 – 14:55	Michael R. Bussieck (GAMS)	Solving Energy System Models with GAMS on HPC platforms
14:55 – 15:10		Coffee Break
15:10 – 15:45	Akira Tanaka (Kyushu Univ)	Map-Matching Algorithms using Shortest Path Algorithm on Time-Expanded Graph
15:45 – 16:20	Akihiro Yoshida (Kyushu Univ)	Demand Prediction and Repositioning Problem for Bike-Sharing System
16:20 – 16:35		Coffee Break
16:35 – 17:10	Ayaka Sakata (ISM)	Cross-validation in sparse linear regression with piecewise continuous nonconvex penalties and its acceleration
17:10 – 17:45	Hideitsu Hino (ISM)	Fused Sparse Transition Probability Matrix Estimation

March 29th (Seminar Room 1)

Time	Speaker	Title
10:00 – 10:35	Mirai Tanaka (ISM & RIKEN)	Adaptive LP-Newton method for second-order cone optimization problem
10:35 – 11:10	Koichi Fujii (MSI)	DNN-based Branch-and-bound for the Quadratic Assignment Problem
11:10 – 11:25		Coffee Break
11:25 – 12:00	Takahito Tanabe (MSI)	Implementation issues of Interior-Point Method for real-world NLP problems
12:00 – 12:35	Koichi Fujii (MSI)	Aggregation Technique of Mixed Integer Rounding Cut and Cutting Plane Selection
12:35 – 14:05		Lunch
14:05 – 14:40	Atsushi Yoshimoto (ISM)	Optimal Landscape Management against Spread of Disastrous Events by Integer Programming
14:40 – 15:15	João Pedro Pedroso (Univ Porto)	A Model for Scheduling High-Cadence Telescope Observations
15:15 – 15:30		Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:50	Sebastian Pokutta (Georgia Tech)	Smooth Constraint Convex Minimization via Conditional Gradients
16:50 – 16:55	Yuji Shinano (ZIB & ISM)	Closing Address

Venue

Auditorium (March 27th) and Seminar Room 1 (March 25th, 26th, 28th, and 29th), The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan
Direction to ISM is available here.

Organizers

Katsuki Fujisawa (IMI)
Satoshi Ito (ISM)
Thorsten Koch (ZIB)
Yuji Shinano (ZIB and ISM)
Mirai Tanaka (ISM)

Cooperation

Sponsor