Prizes

• Maziar Salahi won the MITACS Best Student Paper Prize in 2005.
• Zhuo Zheng, member of the Advanced Optimiztion Laboratory, won second prize for the best graduate presentation at the WindSOR/SWORD 2004 (Windsor Student Operational Research Day / South Western Ontario Operational Research Day).
• Stephen Stoyan, member of the Advanced Optimiztion Laboratory, won first prize at the MITACS 2004 (Mathematics of Information Technolgy and Complex Systems) student poster competition for his work on "Optimizing RF Pulses in MRI via Optimal Control."
• Oleksandr Romanko, member of the Advanced Optimiztion Laboratory, won the 2004 Canadian Operational Research Society student paper competition prize for the paper "Sensitivity Analysis in Convex Quadratic Optimization: Simultaneous Perturbation of the Objective and Right-Hand-Side Vectors."
• Miguel Anjos won the poster prize Workshop in memory of Jos Sturm on Large Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming, May, 2004, at the University of Waterloo; poster title: "Towards an SDP-based Algorithm for the Satisfiability Problem"
• Ayako Watanabe is the winner of the Best undergraduate student paper prize 2002/2003, awarded by the Canadian Operations Research Society.
  The paper documents the work that she did in the summer of 2002 in the Advanced Optimization Lab under the guidance of Tamas Terlaky. The title of her paper is: "Optimal Basis Identification Procedure". The price was awarded during the annual CORS conference in Vancouver, June 3, 2003.
• Jiming Peng was awarded two PRESTIGIOUS PRIZES.
  • The Stieltjes Thesis Prize awarded to the best Ph.D. thesis in Mathematical Sciences in 2001, by the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics, The Netherlands.
  • He was also one of the finalists of the 2000-2003 A.W.Tucker Prize at the XVIII ISMP in Copenhagen.

Publications for individual authors can be found using the following links:

• Abdo Alfakih
• Miguel F. Anjos
• Kankar Bhattacharya
• Claudio Cañizares
• Richard J. Caron
• Tim Davidson
• Antoine Deza
• David Fuller
• Jiming Peng
• Tamas Terlaky
• Anthony Vannelli
• Henry Wolkowicz
• Guoqing Zhang

Current Publications Directly Arising from Network Funded Research November/2005-November/2006

Publications in refereed journals

• A. Abdel-Samad, T. N. Davidson, and A. B. Gershman, Robust transmit eigen-beamforming based on imperfect channel state information, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 54(5):1596-1609, May 2006.
• S. Al-Homidan and H. Wolkowicz, Approximate and exact completion problems for Euclidean distance matrices using semidefinite programming, Linear Algebra Appl., 406:109-141, 2005.
• A.Y. Alfakih, A remark on the faces of the cone of Euclidean distance matrices, Lin. Alg. Appl. 414 (2006) 266-270.
• A.Y. Alfakih, On the nullspace, the range space and the characteristic polynomial of Euclidean distance matrices, Lin. Alg. Appl. 416 (2006) 348-354.
• A.Y. Alfakih and H. Wolkowicz, Some necessary and sufficient trace inequalities for Euclidean distance matrices, to appear in Linear and Multilinear algebra.
• Ch. Anand, R. Sotirov, T. Terlaky and Z. Zheng, Magnetic Resonance Tissue Density Estimation using Optimal SSFP Pulse-Sequence Design. (2006) To appear in Optimization and Engineering.
• A. Andreoiu, K. Bhattacharya, and C. A. Cañizares, Pricing Power System Stabilizers Using Game Theory, IEE Proceedings-Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 152, No. 6, November 2005, pp.780-786.
• M.F. Anjos and A. Vannelli, A New Mathematical-Programming Framework for Facility-Layout Design, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 18 (1), 2006, 111-118.
• M.F. Anjos, An Explicit Semidefinite Characterization of Satisfiability for Tseitin Instances on Toroidal Grid Graphs, To appear in annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (accepted July 2006).
• D. Avis and A. Deza, Un des "problemes plaisans et delectables" de Claude Berge, Discrete Mathematics, 306 (2006) 2299-2302.
• G. Bautista, M.F. Anjos, and A. Vannelli, Formulation of Oligopolistic Competition in AC Power Networks: An NLP Approach, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (accepted October 2006).
• B. Borna and T. N. Davidson, Efficient design of FMT systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 54(5):794-797, May 2006.
• C. A. Cañizares, E. Uzunovic, and J. Reeve, Transient Stability and Power Flow Models of the Unified Power Flow Controller for Various Control Strategies, International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy, invited paper, Vol. 4, No. 3-4, 2006, pp. 349-378.
• E. Celebi and J.D. Fuller, 2006. Models of Efficient Consumer Pricing Schemes in Electricity Markets, accepted 19 September, 2006, by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 8 journal pages.
• J. Chlebikova, D. Ye and H. Zhang, Assign Ranges in General Ad-Hoc Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 66(4) (2006) 489-498.
• W. Chung, and J.D. Fuller, 2005. Dantzig-Wolfe-Jacobi Decomposition Method for a Class of Multi-commodity Economic Equilibrium Models, submitted to Operations Research in Nov. 2005 30 manuscript pages plus 9 page online appendix.
• W. Chung, J.D. Fuller and Y.J. Wu, 2006. A New Decomposition Method for Multi-Regional Economic Equilibrium Models, Operations Research, 54, 4, 643-655.
• A. Deza, B. Goldengorin and D. Pasechnik, The isometries of the cut, metric and hypermetric cones, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 23 (2006) 197-203.
• A. Deza, S. Huang, T. Stephen and T. Terlaky, Colourful simplicial depth, Discrete and Computational Geometry 35-4 (2006) 597-615.
• A. Deza, E. Nematollahi, R. Peyghami and T. Terlaky, The central path visits all the vertices of the Klee-Minty cube, Optimization Methods and Software 21-5 (2006) 851-865.
• A. Deza, E. Nematollahi and T. Terlaky, How good are interior point methods? Klee-Minty cubes tighten iteration-complexity bounds (2007). To appear in Mathematical Programming.
• I. El-Samahy, K. Bhattacharya, C. A. Cañizares, M.F. Anjos, and J. Pan, A Procurement Market Model for Reactive Power Services Considering System Security, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, submitted July 2006, revised and resubmitted October 2006.
• A. Ghffari Hadigheh, K. Mirnia, T. Terlaky, Sensitivity analysis in linear and convex quadratic optimization: Invariant active constraint set and invariant set intervals (2006). Information Systems and Operations Research (INFOR) 44(2). 129-155.
• A. Ghaffari Hadigheh, K. Mirnia and T. Terlaky, Active Constraint Set Invariancy Sensitivity Analysis in Linear Optimization (2007). To appear in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 133(1). April (2007).
• A.R. Ghaffari Hadigheh, O. Romanko and T. Terlaky, Sensitivity Analysis in Convex Quadratic Optimization: Simultaneous Perturbation of the Objective and Right-Hand-Side Vectors (1996). To appear in Algorithmic Operations Research.
• A.R. Ghaffari Hadigheh and T. Terlaky, Sensitivity Analysis in Linear Optimization: Invariant Support Set Intervals (2005), European Journal of Operational Research 169(3). 1158-1175.
• A.R. Ghfari Hadigheh and T. Terlaky, Generalized Support Set Invariancy Sensitivity Analysis (2006). Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 2(1). 1-18.
• H. Ghasemi and C. A. Cañizares, Damping Torque Estimation from Ambient Data and Oscillatory Stability Margin Prediction, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, accepted October 2006.
• H. Ghasemi, C. A. Cañizares, and A. Moshref, Oscillatory Stability Limit Prediction Using Stochastic Subspace Identification, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 21, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 736-745.
• R. H. Gohary and T. N. Davidson, Design of linear dispersion codes: Some asymptotic guidelines and their implementation, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 4(6):2892-2906, November 2005.
• O. Grodzevich and H. Wolkowicz, Regularization using a parameterized trust region subproblem, Math. Programming, (CORR 2005-11) accepted Jan. 6/06, 2006.
• X. Gu and C. A. Cañizares, Fast Prediction of Loadability Margins Using Neural Networks to Approximate Security Boundaries of Power Systems, IEE Proceedings-Generation, Transmission and Distribution, submitted July 2006, revised and resubmitted October 2006.
• K. Jansen and H. Zhang, An Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Malleable Tasks under General Precedence Constraints, ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2(3) (2006) 416-434.
• S. K. M. Kodsi and C. A. Cañizares, Application of a Stability-constrained Optimal Tuning of Oscillation Controls to Improve Electricity Market Operating Conditions, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, submitted September 2005, revised and resubmitted October 2006.
• S. Kodsi, C. A. Cañizares, and M. Kazerani, Reactive Current Control through SVC for Load Power Factor Correction, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 76, No. 9-10, June 2006, pp. 701-708.
• W.-K. Ma, B.-N. Vo, T. N. Davidson, and P. C. Ching, Blind ML detection of orthogonal space-time block codes: Efficient, high-performance implementations, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 54(2):738-751, February 2006.
• F. Milano, C. A. Cañizares, and A. J. Conejo, Sensitivity-based Security-constrained OPF Market Clearing Model, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20, No. 4, November 2005, pp. 2051-2060.
• J. Peng and Y. Wei, Approximating K-means-type clustering via semidefinite programming, Accepted, 2006.
• I. Polik, T. Terlaky, A comprehensive study of the S-lemma (2006). To appear in SIAM Review. [has won the 2005 MITACS Best student paper award (PhD student)]
• M. Salahi and T. Terlaky, Adaptive Large Neighborhood Self-Regular Predictor-Corrector IPMs for LO (2006). To appear in JOTA (2006).
• M. Salahi and T. Terlaky, Postponing the Choice of the Barrier Parameter in Mehrotra-Type Predictor-Corrector Algorithms (2007). To appear in European Journal on Operational Research (2007).
• M. Salahi, T. Terlaky and G. Zhang, On the Complexity of Self-Regular Proximity Based Infeasible IPMs (2006), Computational Optimization and Applications 33(2-3), 157-186.
• N. D. Sidiropoulos, T. N. Davidson, and Z.-Q. Luo, Transmit beamforming for physical layer multicasting, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 54(6):2239-2251, June 2006.
• L.Tuncel and H. Wolkowicz, Strengthened existence and uniqueness conditions for search directions in semidefinite programming, Linear Algebra Appl., 400:31-60, 2005.
• G. Verbic and C. A. Cañizares, Probabilistic Optimal Power Flow in Electricity Markets Based on a Two-Point Estimate Method, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, accepted March 2006.
• S. Wong, and J.D. Fuller, 2005. Alternative Electricity Market Systems for Energy and Reserves Using Stochastic Optimization, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems in 2005.
• X. Wu, Z. Tian, T. N. Davidson, and G. B. Giannakis, Optimal waveform design for UWB radios, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 54(6):2009-2021, June 2006.
• F. Xu, T. N. Davidson, J.-K. Zhang, and K. M. Wong, Design of block transceivers with decision feedback detection, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 54(3):965-978, March 2006.
• D.H. Yang, J. Peng, M. Lu and T. Terlaky, Optimal nearly-analytic discrete approximation to the scalar wave equation, The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), 96, 2006, 1114-1130.
• D.H. Yang, J. Peng, M. Lu and T. Terlaky, A nearly-analytic discrete method for wave-field simulations in 2D porous media, Communications in Computational Physics, 1, 2006, 530-549.
• H. Zareipour, K. Bhattacharya, and C. A. Cañizares, Electricity Market Price Volatility: The Case of Ontario, Energy Policy, submitted April 2006.
• H. Zareipour, C. A. Cañizares, and K. Bhattacharya, The Ontario Competitive Electricity Market: Overview, Experiences, and Lessons, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, submitted October 2006.
• H. Zareipour, C. A. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, and J. Thomson, Application of Public-Domain Market Information to Forecast Ontario's Wholesale Electricity Prices, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, accepted July 2006.
• G. Zhang and K.K. Lai, Combining path relinking and genetic algorithms for the multiple-level warehouse layout problem, European Journal of Operational Researh, 169/2, 413-425, 2006.
• G. Zhang and K.K. Lai, Tabu Search Approaches for a Multiple-Level Warehouse Layout Problem with Adjacency Constraints, submitted to Computers and Industrial Engineering, June 2006.
• G. Zhang and L. Ma, Optimal acquisition policy with quantity discounts and uncertain demands, submitted to International Journal of Production Research, Sep. 2006.
• M.A. Eldery, E. El-Saadany, M.M.A. Salama, and A. Vannelli, "A novel power quality monitoring allocation algorithm", IEEE Trans. on Power Quality,  Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 768-777, April 2006.

Other refereed publications

• M.F. Anjos, M. Desroches, A. Haque, O. Grodzevich, H. Wei, and H. Wolkowicz, Multi-stage investment decision under contingent demand for networking planning, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE GLOBECOM Conference in San Francisco, accepted June/06, 2006.
• G. Bautista, M.F. Anjos, and A. Vannelli, Analysis of Market Power Using an AC Transmission System, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Power Systems Conference & Exposition (PSCE) 2006.
• M. Botros Shenouda and T. N. Davidson, Robust linear precoding for uncertain MISO broadcast channels, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, May 2006, Volume IV, pages 37-40. (On the basis of this paper, Mr Botros Shenouda was selected as a winner in the student paper competition.)
• M. Botros Shenouda and T. N. Davidson, Transmitter design with interference pre-subtraction for uncertain broadcast channels, Proceedings of the 2006 Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL. September 2006.
• C. A. Cañizares and S. K. M. Kodsi, Tools for Voltage Stability Analysis, Proc. IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Invited paper, Malaga, Spain, May 2006, 4 pages.
• C. A. Cañizares and S. K. M. Kodsi, Power System Security in Market Clearing and Dispatch Mechanisms, Proc. IEEE-PES General Meeting 2006, Invited paper, Montreal, June 2006, 6 pages.
• C. A. Cañizares and S. K. M. Kodsi, Dynamic Versus Steady-State Modeling of FACTS Controllers in Transmission Congestion, Proc. IEEE-PES General Meeting 2006, Invited paper, Montreal, June 2006, 6 pages.
• M. A. El-Azizy, R. H. Gohary, and T. N. Davidson, A BICM scheme with iterative demapping and decoding for non-coherent MIMO communication, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Istanbul, June 2006, Paper Number WC01-3.
• I. El-Samahy, K. Bhattacharya, and C. A. Cañizares, A Heuristic Method for Reactive Power Service Procurement, Proc. IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Invited paper, Malaga, Spain, May 2006, 4 pages.
• H. Ghasemi and C. A. Cañizares, Torque Estimation and Oscillatory Stability Margin Prediction, Proc. IEEE-PES General Meeting 2006, Montreal, June 2006, 6 pages.
• H. Ghasemi and C. A. Cañizares, Estimation of Uncertainty Intervals in the Identification of Electromechanical Modes from Ambient Data, Proc. Jornadas Ing. Eléctrica y Electrónica, Quito, Ecuador, November 2006, 5 pages.
• X. Gu and C. A. Cañizares, Fast Prediction of Loadability Margins by Constructing a Small-Signal Stability Boundary based on Neural Networks, Proc. Int. Conf. Power System Technologies POWERCON, Chongqing, China, October 2006, 5 pages.
• K. Jansen and H. Zhang, An Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Malleable Tasks under General Precedence Constraints, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2005), LNCS 3827, 236-245.
• S. Jibrin, A. Boneh, and R. Caron, Probabilistic Algorithms for Extreme Point Identification, to appear in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, accepted September 18, 2006.
• J. Liu, T. N. Davidson, and K. M. Wong, Design of space-time multi-block codes for MIMO systems with linear MMSE receivers, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, June 2006, pages 533-537.
• W. Mesbah and T. N. Davidson, Optimal power allocation for full-duplex cooperative multiple access, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, May 2006. Volume IV, pages 689-692.
• W. Mesbah and T. N. Davidson, Optimal power and resource allocation for half-duplex cooperative multiple access, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Istanbul, June 2006, Paper Number WC13-4.
• R. Oduntan, and J.D. Fuller, 2006. “Real Options and Power Asset Management: Valuing Ancillary Services Options,” 28 pages (single spaced), accepted for proceedings and presentation at Electric Power 2006 conference, Atlanta, May 2-4, 2006.
• J. Peng and J. Zhu, Refining Spherical K-means for Clustering Documents, Proceeding of the world congress on computational intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.
• O. Peshko, C.K. Anand and T. Terlaky, Surface reconstruction from structured-light images for radiation therapy (2005). In, Eds. W.C. Chan, K. Yu, U.J. Krull, R.I..Hornsey, B.C. Wilson, R.A. Weersink, Photonic Applications in Biosensing and Imagin, SPIE Vol. 5969, (2005), 427-436.
• M. Saad, T. Terlaky, A. Vannelli and H. Zhang, Packing Trees in Communication Networks, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2005), LNCS 3828, 688-697.
• T. Terlaky, A. Vannelli and H. Zhang, On Routing in VLSI Design and Communication Networks, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2005), LNCS 3827, 1051-1060.
• G. Verbic, A. Schellenberg, W. Rosehart, and C. A. Cañizares, Probabilistic Optimal Power Flow Applications to Electricity Markets, Proc. International Conf. Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2006, 6 pages.
• H. Zareipour, K. Bhattacharya, and C. A. Cañizares, Forecasting the Hourly Ontario Energy Price by Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, Proc. IEEE-PES General Meeting 2006, Montreal, June 2006, 7 pages.

Non-refereed publications

• E. Andersen, E. de Klerk, L. Tuncel, H. Wolkowicz, and S. Zhang editors, Large Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming, Special Issue in memory of Jos Sturm, Math. Programming, Ser. B, to appear, 2007.
• M.F. Anjos and A. Vannelli, Globally Optimal Solutions for Large Single-Row Facility Layout Problems, Working paper, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada, May 2006.
• R. Bhatia, R. Guralnick, S. Kirkland, and H. Wolkowicz, editors, 12th ILAS Conference Proceeding, Regina 2005, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, to appear, 2007.
• C. A. Cañizares, K. Bhattacharya, and I. El-Samahy, Reactive Power Ancillary Service Market Design and Analysis, Final Report, ABB Inc.-University of Waterloo Contract, December 2005.
• A. Deza, S. Huang, T. Stephen and T. Terlaky, The colourful feasibility problem, AdvOL Report 2005/20.
• A. Deza and G. Indik, A counterexample to the dominating set conjecture, AdvOL Report 2005/21.
• A. Deza, T. Terlaky and Y. Zinchenko, Central path curvature and iteration-complexity for redundant Klee-Minty cubes, AdvOL Report 2006/03.
• A. Deza, T. Terlaky and Y. Zinchenko, Polytopes and arrangements: diameter and curvature, AdvOL Report 2006/09.
• Y. Ding and H. Wolkowicz, A matrix-lifting semidefinite relaxation for the quadratic assignment problem, Technical Report CORR 2006-22, submitted Oct./06, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 2006.
• M. Gonzalez-Lima, H. Wei, and H. Wolkowicz, A stable iterative method for linear programming, Technical Report CORR 2004-26, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 2004.
• W. Hare, J. Liu and T. Terlaky, Efficient Preprocessing for VLSI Optimization Problems. AdvOL-report #2006/10. McMaster U. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• K. Jansen and H. Zhang, Scheduling Malleable Tasks, in Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, (Teofilo F. Gonzalez Eds.) CRC Press.
• N. Krislock, V. Piccialli, and H. Wolkowicz, Robust semidefinite programming approaches for sensor network localization with anchors, Technical Report CORR 2006-12, submitted April/06, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 2006.
• C. Luo, M.F. Anjos, and A. Vannelli, A Nonlinear Optimization Methodology for VLSI Fixed-Outline Floorplanning, Technical Report, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, March 2006.
• Y. Mansour and C. A. Cañizares, Voltage Stability, Section 11.4, Electric Power Engineering Handbook, 2nd Edition, invited, CRC, November 2005.
• A.S. Mohamed, J.W. Bandler, M.H. Bakr, K. Madsen and T. Terlaky, Modified BFGS Update for Microwave Circuit Design using Aggressive Space Mapping. AdvOL-report #2006/05. McMaster U. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• E. Nematollahi and T. Terlaky, A simpler and tighter redundant Klee-Minty construction. AdvOL-report #2006/12. McMaster U. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• V. Piccialli and H. Wolkowicz, Solution to probem 34-6.1, IMAGE-The Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society, 35:33-34, 2005.
• M. Potaptchik, L. Tuncel, and H. Wolkowicz, Large scale portfolio optimization with piecewise linear transaction costs, Technical Report CORR 2006-19, submitted Sept./06, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 2006.
• K. Srivaramakrishnan, G. Plaza and T. Terlaky, A Conic Decompositions Approach for Semidefinite Programming. AdvOL-report #2005/22. McMaster U. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• Z. Tian, T. N. Davidson, X. Luo, X. Wu, and G. B. Giannakis, Ultra wideband pulse shaper design, In H. Arslan, Z. N. Chen, and M.-G. Di Benedetto, editors, Ultra Wideband Wireless Communication, chapter 5, pages 103-130, Wiley, New York, October 2006, Invited.
• H. Wei and H. Wolkowicz, Generating and solving hard instances in semidefinite programming, Technical Report CORR 2006-01, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 2006. Submitted to Math. Progr. Jan/06; Accepted subject to revision Sept/06.
• H. Wolkowicz, Semidefinite programming, In Leslie Hogben, editor, CRC Handbook of Linear Algebra (HLA), to appear, Oct/06. CRC Press, Bacon Raton, Fl, 2006.
• H. Wolkowicz, Book review of: Optimization: Insights and Applications, by Brinkhuis and Tikhomirov, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, page to appear, 2006.
• M. Saad, T. Terlaky, A. Vannelli and H. Zhang, March 2006, "Packing trees in communication networks", submitted to Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JoCO), (16 manuscript pages).
• T. Terlaky, A. Vannelli and H. Zhang, July 2005, "On routing in VLSI design and communication networks", submitted to Discrete and Applied Mathematics, (18 manuscript pages).
• M. Saad, T. Terlaky,  A. Vannelli, and H. Zhang, submitted July 16, 2005, accepted August 15, 2005,  "Packing trees in communication networks",WINE 2005, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, December 15-17, 2005, Hong Kong , 10 manuscript pages.
• T. Terlaky, A. Vannelli and Hu Zhang, to appear December 19-21, 2005, "On routing in VLSI design and communication networks", to appear in 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, Sanya Hainan China.

Specialized publications

• K. Durda, Investigating the structure of semantic memory, Master Thesis, University of Windsor, 2006.
• Mohamed El-Azizy, Bit Interleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Demapping and Decoding for Non-Coherent MIMO Communication, Master University, McMaster University, 2006.
• H. Ghasemi, On-line Monitoring and Oscillatory Stability Margin Prediction in Power Systems Based on System Identification, PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006.
• Ramy Gohary, Efficient space-time signalling: Coherent and non-coherent scenarios, PhD Thesis, McMaster University, 2006.
• Kimia Ghobadi, Heat-Transfer Problem, Master Thesis, McMaster University, 2006.
• O. Grodzevich, Regularization Using a Parameterized Trust Region Subproblem, Master Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005.
• G. Indik, Polyhedral computation under symmetry, Master Thesis, McMaster University, 2006.
• S. Kodsi, Accounting for the Effect of Power System Controllers and Stability on Power Dispatch and Electricity Market Prices, PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005.
• L. Ma, Optimal Acquisition Policy for a Supply Nnetwork with Discount Schemes and Uncertain Demands, Master Thesis, University of Windsor, 2006.
• M. Potaptchik, Portfolio Selection Under Nonsmooth Convex Transaction Costs, PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006.
• M. Salahi, New Adaptive Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Optimization, PhD Thesis, McMaster University, 2006.
• H. Wei, Numerical Stability in Linear Programming and Semidefinite Programming, PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006.