IRES: International Experience for Students: U.S.-Ukraine Collaboration on Discrete and Nondifferentiable Optimization

Oise 08-53804 oise 08-53997匹兹堡大学德州工程实验站Sergiy Butenko Oleg Prokopyev得克萨斯工程实验站该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法第111-5条)资助。学生的国际研究经验：美国和乌克兰在离散和不可微优化方面的合作这个美国和乌克兰的项目为美国本科生和研究生提供了在乌克兰基辅的格鲁什科夫控制论研究所进行研究的机会。研究活动集中在离散和不可微优化及其应用领域。主要调查人员是德克萨斯工程实验站的塞尔吉·布滕科、匹兹堡大学的奥列格·普罗科普耶夫和格卢什科夫控制论研究所的伊万·塞尔吉延科。这些美国学生在格卢什科夫研究所度过三周的时间，他们在那里的团队中工作，成员包括美国研究生和本科生以及乌克兰学生。乌克兰高级研究人员担任导师。为学生提供了各种各样的研究项目想法可供选择。他们还可能提出自己要解决的问题。要解决的问题包括一些著名的问题，以及具有大量应用的新颖的组合优化问题。一个项目主题的例子是开发元启发式方法来解决分数0-1规划问题，并将其应用于DNA微阵列数据的双聚。该项目实现了项目目标，即通过国际合作研究培训、网络和指导为美国学生提供全球视野和专业成长机会。这项活动是由国家科学基金会0553513号奖支持的前一个IRES项目的继续。

OISE 08-53804 OISE 08-53997Sergiy Butenko Oleg ProkopyevTexas Engineering Experiment Station University of PittsburghThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).International Research Experience for Students: U.S.-Ukraine Collaboration on Discrete and Nondifferentiable OptimizationThis US-Ukraine project provides US undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to conduct research at the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv, Ukraine. The research activities are focused in the areas of discrete and nondifferentiable optimization and their applications. The principal investigators are Sergiy Butenko from the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Oleg Prokopyev from the University of Pittsburgh and Ivan Sergienko from the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics.The US students spend three-week periods at the Glushkov Institute where they work in teams involving US graduate and undergraduate students, as well as Ukrainian students. The Ukrainian senior researchers serve as mentors. Students are offered a variety of research project ideas to choose from. They may also propose their own problems to work on. The problems to be solved include some well-known ones, as well as novel combinatorial optimization problems that have numerous applications. An example of a project topic offered is developing metaheuristic approaches for solving fractional 0-1 programming problems with application in biclustering of DNA microarray data.This project fulfills the program objectives of providing US students with a global perspective and opportunities for professional growth through international cooperative research training, networking and mentoring. This activity is continuation of a previous IRES project supported by NSF award # 0553513.