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Qualification that a leader should satisfy in managing nonprofit organization (NPO) is revealed by integrating the analysis of questionnaire survey and mailing list archives. Questionnaire survey is applied to 104 members in dot-jp, the specific nonprofit organization in Japan. Mailing list archives are analyzed by applying the IDM (Influence Diffusion Model) that measures the influential and i...

Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world with millions of fans that usually raise interesting questions when the competition is partially completed. One interesting question relates to the elimination problem which consists in checking at some stage of the competition if a team i still has a theoretical chance to become the champion. Some other interesting problems from literature ...

Surgical theater is one of the most expensive hospital sources that a high percentage of hospital admissions are related to it. Therefore, efficient planning and scheduling of the operating rooms (ORs) is necessary to improve the efficiency of any healthcare system. Therefore, in this paper, the weekly OR planning and scheduling problem is addressed to minimize the waiting time of elective pati...

Abstract The presence of Lipschitzian properties for solution mappings associated with nonlinear parametric optimization problems is desirable in the context of, e.g., stability analysis or bilevel optimization. An example such a property set-valued mappings, whose graph set system inequalities and equations, R-regularity. Based on so-called relaxed constant positive linear dependence constrain...

This paper is devoted to the study of metric subregularity constraint qualification for general optimization problems, with emphasis on nonconvex setting. We elaborate notions directional pseudo- and quasi-normality, recently introduced by Bai et al., which combine standard approach via quasi-normality modern tools variational analysis. focus applications disjunctive programs, where (directiona...

In this paper, we consider a simple bilevel program where the lower level program is a nonconvex minimization problem with a convex set constraint and the upper level program has a convex set constraint. By using the value function of the lower level program, we reformulate the bilevel program as a single level optimization problem with a nonsmooth inequality constraint and a convex set constra...

We consider optimization problems with equality, inequality, and abstract set constraints. We investigate the relations between various characteristics of the constraint set related to the existence of Lagrange multipliers. For problems with no abstract set constraint, the classical condition of quasiregularity provides the connecting link between the most common constraint qualifications and e...

The bilevel program is an optimization problem in which the constraint involves solutions to a parametric problem. It well known that value function reformulation provides equivalent single-level problem, but it results nonsmooth never satisfies usual qualification, such as Mangasarian–Fromovitz qualification (MFCQ). In this paper, we show even first order sufficient condition for metric subreg...