Yinyu Ye

Professor of Management Science and Engineering
and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering

Director, Industrial Affiliates Program, MS&E

Terman Engineering Center 316
Department of Management Science and Engineering
School of Engineering
Stanford University

Phone: 650 723-7262
Fax: 650 723-1614

http://or.stanford.edu/
Computational Optimization



The new working paper: A Path to the Arrow-Debreu Competitive Market Equilibrium is available. Click here for the PDF file . (Posted February/23/04, revised final version April 13, 2005; research supported by NSF grant DMS-0306611.)

The new working paper: An SDP based approach for anchor-free 3D graph realization is available. Click here for the zipped PDF file (Posted March 29/05).

The new working paper: On Approximating Complex Quadratic Optimization Problems via Semidefinite Programming Relaxations is available. Click here for the PDF file . (Posted 1/31/05; to appear in IPCO 2005; research supported by NSF grant DMS-0306611.)

The new working paper: Market equilibria for homothetic, quasi-concave utilities and economies of scale in production is available. Click here for the PDF file . (Posted 10/18/04; to appear in SODA 2005; research supported by NSF grant DMS-0306611.)

The new working paper: A Gradient Search Method to Round the Semidefinite Programming Relaxation Solution for Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network Localization is available. Click here for the PDF file and Matlab demo code zip file . (Posted August 24/04; Report updated 10/1/04 and Demo updated 10/10/04.)

The new working paper: Theory of Semidefinite Programming for Sensor Network Localization is available. Click here for the PDF file . (Posted April/24/04 and updated 10/18/04; to appear in SODA 2005 and Mathematical Programming.)

The new working paper: A distributed method for solving semideinite programs arising from Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network Localization is available. Click here for the PDF file . (Posted October/30/03.)

The new working paper: A Multi-Exchange Local Search Algorithm for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem is available. Click here for the PDF file . (Posted 10/20/03, revised 3/3/04; to appear in Math of OR.)

The new revised working paper: Semidefinite Programming for Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network Localization is available. Click here for the PDF file . (Posted 9/10/03 and updated 9/29/03, Revised February 2004; in IPSN 2004.)

The new revised working paper: A New Complexity Result on Solving the Markov Decision Problem is available. Click here for the PDF file. (Posted 10/4/02, revised 10/3/04, research supported by NSF grant DMS-0306611, to appear in Math of OR.)

The new working paper: An improved algorithm for approximating the radii of point sets is available. Click here for the Postscript or PDF file. (Posted 4/3/03, Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0306611; in APPROX 2004.)

The new working paper: An approximation algorithm for scheduling aircraft with holding time is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 4/3/03, Research supported in part by NSF grant DMI-0231600, to appear in CDC2004.)

The new working paper: MILP formulation and polynomial time algorithm for aircraft scheduling problems is available and to appear in CDC03. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 3/20/03, Research supported in part by NSF grant DMI-0231600, in CDC2003.)

The new working paper: Approximation Algorithms for Metric Facility Location Problems . Click here for the postscript file. This is the journal version of "Improved approximation algorithms for metric facility location problems" of Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization (APPROX 2002) and "A 2-approximation algorithm for the soft-capacitated facility location problem" of Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization (APPROX 2003). (Posted 12/10/02, and updated 10/7/03. This author and Jiawei Zhang were supported in part by NSF grant DMI-0231600.)

The new working paper: Lot-sizing scheduling with batch setup times is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 9/5/02. This work is supported by NSF grant DMI-0231600.)

The new working paper: Improved complexity results on solving real-number linear feasibility problems is available. Click here for the Postscript file. (Posted 3/18/02; to appear in Math Programming. This work is supported by NSF grant DMS-9703490 and DMS-0306611.)

The BOOK Interior-Point Algorithm: Theory and Analysis has been published. Click here for information and related software .

Education

Ph.D. Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research , Stanford University , 1988.
M.S. Engineering Economic Systems , Stanford University , 1983.
B.S. Systems and Control, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan, China, 1982.

Research Interest

Mathematical Programming
Optimization Algorithm Design and Analysis
Computational Complexity
Operations Research and Its Applications

My curriculum Vita is here
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Here is my selected publications and working papers with links to Postscript files

Click here for my NSF Reports

Here are Courses I am teaching

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Yinyu Ye
Department of Management Science and Engineering
School of Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
email:mailto:yinyu-ye@stanford.edu
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