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Uncertainty in surgery durations continues to be difficult to account for in operating room scheduling. In particular, it remains complex to accurately incorporate uncertainty in surgical overtime constraints within mixed-integer linear…

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In this paper, we present an analysis of the strength of sparse cutting-planes for mixed integer linear programs (MILP) with sparse formulations. We examine three kinds of problems: packing problems, covering problems, and more general…

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Ridepooling services play an increasingly important role in modern transportation systems. With soaring demand and growing fleet sizes, the underlying route planning problems become increasingly challenging. In this context, we consider the…

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This paper addresses the Oral Examination Timetabling Problem (OETP) for France's prestigious engineering schools, an organization managed by the Service des Concours Communs Polytechniques (SCCP). The scheduling is highly complex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Cyrille Briand , Jean-Pierre Belaud

We consider integer programming problems with bounded general-integer variables belonging to the general class of network flow problems. For those, we computationally investigate the effect on mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers…

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We consider robust combinatorial optimization problems where the decision maker can react to a scenario by choosing from a finite set of $k$ solutions. This approach is appropriate for decision problems under uncertainty where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk , Jannis Kurtz , Michael Poss

Increasingly volatile electricity prices make simultaneous scheduling optimization desirable for production processes and their energy systems. Simultaneous scheduling needs to account for both process dynamics and binary on/off-decisions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Florian Joseph Baader , André Bardow , Manuel Dahmen

Two-dimensional bin packing problems are highly relevant combinatorial optimization problems. They find a large number of applications, for example, in the context of transportation or warehousing, and for the cutting of different materials…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Christian Blum , Verena Schmid , Lukas Baumgartner

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is at the core of many advanced algorithms for solving fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. The complexity of solving MILPs directly correlates with their support size, which is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sebastian Berndt , Hauke Brinkop , Klaus Jansen , Matthias Mnich , Tobias Stamm

We proposed the method that translates the 2-D CSP for minimizing the number of cuts to the Ising model. After that, we conducted computer experiments of the proposed model using the benchmark problem. From the above, the following results…

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A mathematical programming model for a class of single machine family scheduling problem is described in this technical report, with the aim of comparing the performance in solving the scheduling problem by means of mathematical programming…

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This paper presents an algorithmic study of a class of covering mixed-integer linear programming problems which encompasses classic cover problems, including multidimensional knapsack, facility location and supplier selection problems. We…

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In this paper we deal with a network of agents seeking to solve in a distributed way Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with a coupling constraint (modeling a limited shared resource) and local constraints. MILPs are NP-hard problems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper addresses the problem of tightening the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for continuous piecewise linear (CPWL) approximations of data sets in arbitrary dimensions. The MILP formulation leverages the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Quentin Ploussard , Xiang Li , Matija Pavičević

This paper addresses a production scheduling problem derived from an industrial use case, focusing on unrelated parallel machine scheduling with the personnel availability constraint. The proposed model optimizes the production plan over a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Maziyar Khadivi , Mostafa Abbasi , Todd Charter , Homayoun Najjaran

This paper considers the generalized maximal covering location problem (GMCLP) which establishes a fixed number of facilities to maximize the weighted sum of the covered customers, allowing customer weights to be positive or negative. Due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Wei Lv , Cheng-Yang Yu , Jie Liang , Wei-Kun Chen , Yu-Hong Dai

Cutting plane selection is a subroutine used in all modern mixed-integer linear programming solvers with the goal of selecting a subset of generated cuts that induce optimal solver performance. These solvers have millions of parameter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Mark Turner , Thorsten Koch , Felipe Serrano , Michael Winkler

Leveraging machine learning (ML) to predict an initial solution for mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has gained considerable popularity in recent years. These methods predict a solution and fix a subset of variables to reduce the…

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Warehouses are nowadays the scene of complex logistic problems integrating different decision layers. This paper addresses the Joint Order Batching, Picker Routing and Sequencing Problem with Deadlines (JOBPRSP-D) in rectangular warehouses.…

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