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Integer programs for resource-constrained project scheduling problems are notoriously hard to solve due to their weak linear relaxations. Several papers have proposed reformulating project scheduling problems via Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Maximilian Kolter , Martin Grunow , Rainer Kolisch

In this work, we develop an adaptive, multivariate partitioning algorithm for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLP) with multi-linear terms to global optimality. This iterative algorithm primarily exploits the advantages of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Harsha Nagarajan , Mowen Lu , Site Wang , Russell Bent , Kaarthik Sundar

In this paper, we describe a comprehensive algorithmic framework for solving mixed integer bilevel linear optimization problems (MIBLPs) using a generalized branch-and-cut approach. The framework presented merges features from existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Sahar Tahernejad , Ted K. Ralphs , Scott T. DeNegre

Mixed integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) are arguably among the hardest optimization problems, with a wide range of applications. MINLP solvers that are based on linear relaxations and spatial branching work similar as mixed integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Jakob Witzig , Timo Berthold , Stefan Heinz

In this paper, we mainly study one class of convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs) with non-differentiable data. By dropping the differentiability assumption, we substitute gradients with subgradients obtained from KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Zhou Wei , M. Montaz Ali

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

While mixed-integer linear programming and convex programming solvers have advanced significantly over the past several decades, solution technologies for general mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) have yet to reach the same level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi , Junyuan Qiu

The most important ingredient for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) to global epsilon-optimality with spatial branch and bound is a tight, computationally tractable relaxation. Due to both theoretical and practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Benjamin Müller , Gonzalo Muñoz , Maxime Gasse , Ambros Gleixner , Andrea Lodi , Felipe Serrano

Mixed integer convex and nonlinear programs, MICP and MINLP, are expressive but require long solving times. Recent work that combines learning methods on solver heuristics has shown potential to overcome this issue allowing for applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xuan Lin , Gabriel I. Fernandez , Dennis W. Hong

We address the solution of Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models with strong relaxations that are derived from Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions and allow a pseudo-polynomial pricing algorithm. We exploit their network-flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Vinícius L. de Lima , Manuel Iori , Flávio K. Miyazawa

This paper proposes a joint decomposition method that combines La- grangian decomposition and generalized Benders decomposition, to efficiently solve multiscenario nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems to global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Emmanuel Ogbe , Xiang Li

We propose an extended variant of the reformulation and decomposition algorithm for solving a special class of mixed-integer bilevel linear programs (MIBLPs) where continuous and integer variables are involved in both upper- and lower-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Dajun Yue , Jiyao Gao , Bo Zeng , Fengqi You

Nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) represent a challenging class of optimization problems that often arise in engineering and scientific applications. Because of nonconvexities, these programs are typically solved with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Ole Kröger , Carleton Coffrin , Hassan Hijazi , Harsha Nagarajan

For clustering of an undirected graph, this paper presents an exact algorithm for the maximization of modularity density, a more complicated criterion to overcome drawbacks of the well-known modularity. The problem can be interpreted as the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Keisuke Sato , Yoichi Izunaga

For over ten years, the constraint integer programming framework SCIP has been extended by capabilities for the solution of convex and nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs). With the recently published version 8.0, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Ksenia Bestuzheva , Antonia Chmiela , Benjamin Müller , Felipe Serrano , Stefan Vigerske , Fabian Wegscheider

Given an undirected graph, the k-vertex cut problem (k-VCP) asks for a minimum-cost set of vertices whose removal yields at least k connected components in the resulting graph. The k-VCP is an important problem in network optimization, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Fabio Ciccarelli , Fabio Furini , Christopher Hojny , Marco Lübbecke

Integer and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (INLP, MINLP) are central to logistics, energy, and scheduling, but remain computationally challenging. This survey examines how machine learning and reinforcement learning can enhance exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Morteza Kimiaei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Brian Olimba

Stochastic programming provides a natural framework for modeling sequential optimization problems under uncertainty; however, the efficient solution of large-scale multistage stochastic programs remains a challenge, especially in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Tushar Rathi , Benjamin P. Riley , Angela Flores-Quiroz , Qi Zhang

Our study is motivated by the solution of Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems with separable non-convex functions via the Sequential Convex MINLP technique, an iterative method whose main characteristic is that of solving,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Renan Spencer Trindade , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Antonio Frangioni , Claudio Gentile
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