English
Related papers

Related papers: Convexification of Queueing Formulas by Mixed-Inte…

200 papers

Generalizing both mixed-integer linear optimization and convex optimization, mixed-integer convex optimization possesses broad modeling power but has seen relatively few advances in general-purpose solvers in recent years. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Miles Lubin , Emre Yamangil , Russell Bent , Juan Pablo Vielma

The optimal design of multi-target rendezvous and flyby missions is challenging due to the combination of traditional spacecraft trajectory optimization and high-dimensional combinatorial problems. This often requires large-scale global…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jack Yarndley , Harry Holt , Roberto Armellin

Mixed-Integer Programs (MIPs) are NP-hard optimization models that arise in a broad range of decision-making applications, including finance, logistics, energy systems, and network design. Although modern commercial solvers have achieved…

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) is one of the most widely used modeling techniques for combinatorial optimization problems. In many applications, a similar MIP model is solved on a regular basis, maintaining remarkable similarities in model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jian-Ya Ding , Chao Zhang , Lei Shen , Shengyin Li , Bing Wang , Yinghui Xu , Le Song

This paper provides a general mathematical optimization based framework to incorporate fairness measures from the facilities' perspective to Discrete and Continuous Maximal Covering Location Problems. The main ingredients to construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Víctor Blanco , Ricardo Gázquez

An important problem in tree breeding is optimal selection from candidate pedigree members to produce the highest performance in seed orchards, while conserving essential genetic diversity. The most beneficial members should contribute as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Makoto Yamashita , Tim J. Mullin , Sena Safarina

A power system unit commitment (UC) problem considering uncertainties of renewable energy sources is investigated in this paper, through a distributionally robust optimization approach. We assume that the first and second order moments of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Xiaodong Zheng , Haoyong Chen , Yan Xu , Zhengmao Li , Zhenjia Lin , Zipeng Liang

Optimal contribution selection (OCS) is a mathematical optimization problem that aims to maximize the total benefit from selecting a group of individuals under a constraint on genetic diversity. We are specifically focused on OCS as applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Sena Safarina , Tim J. Mullin , Makoto Yamashita

We study a class of bilevel integer programs with second-order cone constraints at the upper level and a convex quadratic objective and linear constraints at the lower level. We develop disjunctive cuts to separate bilevel infeasible points…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Elisabeth Gaar , Jon Lee , Ivana Ljubić , Markus Sinnl , Kübra Tanınmış

We investigate the transportation problem under a Monge cost structure and derive compact formulas for optimal dual solutions based on the northwest-corner rule. As an application illustrating how these formulas yield structural insight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Stefan Nickel , Justo Puerto , Simon Ramoser , Alberto Torrejon

This paper presents a concrete implementation of the feasible second order bundle algorithm for nonsmooth, nonconvex optimization problems with inequality constraints \cite{HannesPaperB}. It computes the search direction by solving a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Hannes Fendl , Hermann Schichl

We propose a new method for linear second-order cone programs. It is based on the sequential quadratic programming framework for nonlinear programming. In contrast to interior point methods, it can capitalize on the warm-start capabilities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Xinyi Luo , Andreas Waechter

This paper presents a systematic approach for computing local solutions to motion planning problems in non-convex environments using numerical optimal control techniques. It extends the range of use of state-of-the-art numerical optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Kristoffer Bergman , Daniel Axehill

In this letter, we consider the Multi-Robot Efficient Search Path Planning (MESPP) problem, where a team of robots is deployed in a graph-represented environment to capture a moving target within a given deadline. We prove this problem to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Beatriz A. Asfora , Jacopo Banfi , Mark Campbell

This paper introduces the two-level capacitated vehicle routing problem (2S-CVRP). This problem combines the two-level bin packing problem and the vehicle routing problem into an integrated framework. The problem itself is an NP-hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Congzheng Liu

In this paper, we develop a fast mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) framework for multi-robot navigation by combining graph attention networks and distributed optimization. We formulate a mixed-integer optimization problem for receding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Viet-Anh Le , Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We propose the algorithm that solves the symmetric cone programs (SCPs) by iteratively calling the projection and rescaling methods the algorithms for solving exceptional cases of SCP. Although our algorithm can solve SCPs by itself, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Shin-ichi Kanoh , Akiko Yoshise

Constrained multiobjective optimization has gained much interest in the past few years. However, constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) are still unsatisfactorily understood. Consequently, the choice of adequate CMOPs for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Aljoša Vodopija , Tea Tušar , Bogdan Filipič

We propose a scheme for solving mixed-integer programming problems in which the optimization problem is translated to a ground-state preparation problem on a set of bosonic quantum field modes (qumodes). We perform numerical demonstrations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Farhad Khosravi , Artur Scherer , Pooya Ronagh

Security-Constrained Unit Commitment is a fundamental optimization problem in power systems operations. The primary computational bottleneck arises from the need to solve large-scale Linear Programming (LP) relaxations within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Jinxin Xiong , Yanting Huang , Yingxiao Wang , Linxin Yang , Jianghua Wu , Shunbo Lei , Akang Wang