Facial structure of copositive and completely positive cones over a second-order cone

We classify the faces of copositive and completely positive cones over a second-order cone and investigate their dimension and exposedness properties. Then we compute two parameters related to chains of faces of both cones. At the end, we discuss some possible extensions of the results with a view toward analyzing the facial structure of general … Read more

An Oracle-based Approach for Price-setting Problems in Logistics

We study a bilevel hub location problem where on the upper level, a shipment service provider –the leader–builds a transportation network and sets the prices of shipments on each possible transportation relation. Here, the leader has to take into account the customers’ reaction — the follower — who will only purchase transport services depending on … Read more

Coherent Local Explanations for Mathematical Optimization

The surge of explainable artificial intelligence methods seeks to enhance transparency and explainability in machine learning models. At the same time, there is a growing demand for explaining decisions taken through complex algorithms used in mathematical optimization. However, current explanation methods do not take into account the structure of the underlying optimization problem, leading to … Read more