Naga Venkata Chaitanya Gudapati

The Inmate Assignment and Scheduling Problem and its Application in the PA Department of Correction

  • Kristofer B. Bucklen
  • Naga Venkata Chaitanya Gudapati
  • Tamás Terlaky
  • Louis J. Plebani
  • Mohammad Shahabsafa
  • Anshul Sharma
  • George R. Wilson
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Applications - Science and Engineering Tags , ,

    The inmate assignment project, in close collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADoC), took five years from start to successful implementation. In this project, we developed the Inmate Assignment Decision Support System (IADSS), where the primary goal is simultaneous and system-wide optimal assignment of inmates to correctional institutions (CIs). We develop a novel hier- … Read more

    Underestimate Sequences via Quadratic Averaging

  • Naga Venkata Chaitanya Gudapati
  • Rachael Tappenden
  • Majid Jahani
  • Chenxin Ma
  • Martin Takac
    • Categories Nonlinear Optimization, Unconstrained Optimization

    In this work we introduce the concept of an Underestimate Sequence (UES), which is a natural extension of Nesterov’s estimate sequence. Our definition of a UES utilizes three sequences, one of which is a lower bound (or under-estimator) of the objective function. The question of how to construct an appropriate sequence of lower bounds is … Read more