Introduction to QUBO -- Applications and Computational Advances for Solving the QUBO Model -- Complexity and Polynomially Solvable Special Cases of QUBO -- The Boolean Quadric Polytope -- Autarkies and Persistencies for QUBO -- Mathematical Programming Models and Exact Algorithms -- The Random...

The main result of this paper is the convexity of Step out - Step in (SoSi) sequencing games, a class of relaxed sequencing games first analyzed by Musegaas, Borm, and Quant (2015). The proof makes use of a polynomial time algorithm determining the value and an optimal processing order for an...