Title
Tractable Approximations to Robust Conic Optimization Problems
Abstract
In earlier proposals, the robust counterpart of conic optimization problems exhibits a lateral increase in complexity, i.e., robust linear programming problems (LPs) become second order cone problems (SOCPs), robust SOCPs become semidefinite programming problems (SDPs), and robust SDPs become NP-hard. We propose a relaxed robust counterpart for general conic optimization problems that (a) preserves the computational tractability of the nominal problem; specifically the robust conic optimization problem retains its original structure, i.e., robust LPs remain LPs, robust SOCPs remain SOCPs and robust SDPs remain SDPs, and (b) allows us to provide a guarantee on the probability that the robust solution is feasible when the uncertain coefficients obey independent and identically distributed normal distributions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/s10107-005-0677-1
Math. Program.
Keywords
Field
DocType
stochastic optimization,robust solution,conic optimization problem,general conic optimization problem,tractable approximations,robust optimization,conic optimization,robust sdps,robust counterpart,robust socps,robust linear programming problem,robust lps,robust conic optimization problem,robust conic optimization problems,nominal problem,independent and identically distributed,normal distribution,linear program
Normal distribution,Mathematical optimization,Stochastic optimization,Robust optimization,Independent and identically distributed random variables,Linear programming,Conic programming,Conic optimization,Semidefinite programming,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
107
1
1436-4646
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
93
6.17
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitris J. Bertsimas14513365.31
Melvyn Sim21909117.68