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We investigate a single machine rescheduling problem that arises from an unexpected machine unavailability, after the given set of jobs has already been scheduled to minimize the total weighted completion time. Such a disruption is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Wenchang Luo , Taibo Luo , Randy Goebel , Guohui Lin

We study a mutually enriching connection between response time analysis in real-time systems and the mixing set problem. Thereby generalizing over known results we present a new approach to the computation of response times in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen

A standard quadratic program is an optimization problem that consists of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex. We focus on reformulating a standard quadratic program as a mixed integer linear programming problem. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Jacek Gondzio , E. Alper Yildirim

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper addresses distributed consensus optimization problems with mixed-integer variables, with a specific focus on Boolean variables. We introduce a novel distributed algorithm that extends the Consensus Augmented Lagrangian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Boyu Han , Xu Du , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems are encountered in modeling a physical/industrial process consisting both nonlinearity and discrete selective parameters. There are variety of algorithms for solving MINLP problems most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Negin Bagherpour , Mahdi Sharifzadeh

We introduce a parallel machine scheduling problem in which the processing times of jobs are not given in advance but are determined by a system of linear constraints. The objective is to minimize the makespan, i.e., the maximum job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

In this paper, the scheduling problems of landing and takeoff aircraft on a same runway and on dual runways are addressed. In contrast to the approaches based on mixed-integer optimization models in existing works, our approach focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Peng Lin , Haopeng Yang , Gui Gui , Mengxiang Zeng , Weihua Gui

A popular approach in combinatorial optimization is to model problems as integer linear programs. Ideally, the relaxed linear program would have only integer solutions, which happens for instance when the constraint matrix is totally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Christoph Durr , Mathilde Hurand

This paper presents an efficient Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) formulation for systems with discrete control inputs under dwell time constraints. By viewing such systems as a switched system, the problem is decomposed into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Ramin Abbasi-Esfeden , Armin Nurkanovic , Moritz Diehl , Panagiotis Patrinos , Jan Swevers

We propose an algorithm for generating explicit solutions of multiparametric mixed-integer convex programs to within a given suboptimality tolerance. The algorithm is applicable to a very general class of optimization problems, but is most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

In this paper, scheduling problems of aircraft minimizing the total delays on a same runway and on dual runways are studied. In contrast to the algorithms based on mixed-integer optimization models in existing works, where the optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Peng Lin , Haopeng Yang

This paper considers a recoverable robust single-machine scheduling problem under polyhedral uncertainty with the objective of minimising the total flow time. In this setting, a decision-maker must determine a first-stage schedule subject…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Matthew Bold , Marc Goerigk

This paper presents different methods for solving parallel machine scheduling problems with precedence constraints and setup times between the jobs. Limited discrepancy search methods mixed with local search principles, dominance conditions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-19 Bernat Gacias , Christian Artigues , Pierre Lopez

This paper presents a profound analysis of the robust job scheduling problem with uncertain release dates on unrelated machines. Our model involves minimizing the worst-case makespan and interval uncertainty where each release date belongs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Mirosław Ławrynowicz , Jerzy Józefczyk

We study the scheduling of jobs on a single parallel-batching machine with non-identical job sizes and incompatible job families. Jobs from the same family have the same processing time and can be loaded into a batch, as long as the batch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Fan Yang , Morteza Davari , Wenchao Wei , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus

Mixed integer Model Predictive Control (MPC) problems arise in the operation of systems where discrete and continuous decisions must be taken simultaneously to compensate for disturbances. The efficient solution of mixed integer MPC…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

We focus on modeling the relationship between an input feature vector and the predicted outcome of a trained decision tree using mixed-integer optimization. This can be used in many practical applications where a decision tree or tree…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Max Biggs , Georgia Perakis

We propose three novel mathematical optimization formulations that solve the same two-type heterogeneous multiprocessor scheduling problem for a real-time taskset with hard constraints. Our formulations are based on a global scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Mason Thammawichai , Eric C. Kerrigan

We consider scheduling problems for unit jobs with release times, where the number or size of the gaps in the schedule is taken into consideration, either in the objective function or as a constraint. Except for a few papers on energy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Marek Chrobak , Mordecai Golin , Tak-Wah Lam , Dorian Nogneng