Robust optimization – methodology and applications

@article{bental02, abstract = {Abstract. Robust Optimization (RO) is a modeling methodology, combined with computational tools, to process optimization problems in which the data are uncertain and is only known to belong to some uncertainty set. The paper surveys the main results of RO as applied to uncertain linear, conic quadratic and semidefinite programming. For these cases, computationally tractable robust counterparts of uncertain problems are explicitly obtained, or good approximations of these counterparts are proposed, making RO a useful tool for real-world applications. We discuss some of these applications, specifically: antenna design, truss topology design and stability analysis/synthesis in uncertain dynamic systems. We also describe a case study of 90 LPs from the NETLIB collection. The study reveals that the feasibility properties of the usual solutions of real world LPs can be severely affected by small perturbations of the data and that the RO methodology can be successfully used to overcome this phenomenon.}, author = {Ben-Tal, Aharon and Nemirovski, Arkadi }, citeulike-article-id = {2813267}, doi = {10.1007/s101070100286}, journal = {Mathematical Programming}, keywords = {optimisation, robuste}, month = {May}, number = {3}, pages = {453--480}, posted-at = {2008-05-20 14:47:44}, priority = {0}, title = {Robust optimization – methodology and applications}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s101070100286}, volume = {92}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - bental02 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2813267 TI - Robust optimization – methodology and applications JF - Mathematical Programming VL - 92 IS - 3 SP - 453 EP - 480 N2 - Abstract. Robust Optimization (RO) is a modeling methodology, combined with computational tools, to process optimization problems in which the data are uncertain and is only known to belong to some uncertainty set. The paper surveys the main results of RO as applied to uncertain linear, conic quadratic and semidefinite programming. For these cases, computationally tractable robust counterparts of uncertain problems are explicitly obtained, or good approximations of these counterparts are proposed, making RO a useful tool for real-world applications. We discuss some of these applications, specifically: antenna design, truss topology design and stability analysis/synthesis in uncertain dynamic systems. We also describe a case study of 90 LPs from the NETLIB collection. The study reveals that the feasibility properties of the usual solutions of real world LPs can be severely affected by small perturbations of the data and that the RO methodology can be successfully used to overcome this phenomenon. KW - optimisation KW - robuste AU - Ben-Tal, Aharon AU - Nemirovski, Arkadi PY - 2002/05/25/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s101070100286 ER -