1. Preface

   • C. A. Floudas

   Preface Pages: 159 - 159

2. Local Optimization Method with Global Multidimensional Search

   • Adil M. Bagirov
   • Alexander M. Rubinov
   • Jiapu Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 179

3. Quartic Formulation of Standard Quadratic Optimization Problems

   • Immanuel M. Bomze
   • Laura Palagi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 205

4. Global Optimization Versus Integer Programming in Portfolio Optimization under Nonconvex Transaction Costs

   • Hiroshi Konno
   • Rei Yamamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 219

5. Convex Underestimation of Twice Continuously Differentiable Functions by Piecewise Quadratic Perturbation: Spline αBB Underestimators

   • Clifford A. Meyer
   • Christodoulos A. Floudas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 258

6. Accelerating Branch-and-Bound through a Modeling Language Construct for Relaxation-Specific Constraints

   • Nikolaos V. Sahinidis
   • Mohit Tawarmalani

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 280

7. A Global Optimization RLT-based Approach for Solving the Hard Clustering Problem

   • Hanif D. Sherali
   • Jitamitra Desai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 306

8. Robust Solution of Nonconvex Global Optimization Problems

   • Hoang Tuy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 323