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Scenario-based optimization problems can be solved via Benders decomposition, which separates first-stage (master problem) decisions from second-stage (subproblem) recourse actions and iteratively refines the master problem with Benders…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Tim Donkiewicz

In this work we investigate the min-max-min robust optimization problem and the k-adaptability robust optimization problem for binary problems with uncertain costs. The idea of the first approach is to calculate a set of k feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jannis Kurtz

In this paper, we develop a new decomposition technique for solving bi-objective linear programming problems. The proposed methodology combines the bi-objective simplex algorithm with Benders decomposition and can be used to obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Andrea Raith , Richard Lusby , Ali Akbar Sohrabi Yousefkhan

In the realm of robust optimization the k-adaptability approach is one promising method to derive approximate solutions for two-stage robust optimization problems. Instead of allowing all possible second-stage decisions, the k-adaptability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Jannis Kurtz

We study two-stage robust optimization problems with mixed discrete-continuous decisions in both stages. Despite their broad range of applications, these problems pose two fundamental challenges: (i) they constitute infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Anirudh Subramanyam , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris , Wolfram Wiesemann

Benders decomposition with adaptive oracles was proposed to solve large-scale optimisation problems with a column bounded block-diagonal structure, where subproblems differ on the right-hand side and cost coefficients. Adaptive Benders…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Hongyu Zhang , Nicolò Mazzi , Ken McKinnon , Rodrigo Garcia Nava , Asgeir Tomasgard

Two-stage robust optimization problems constitute one of the hardest optimization problem classes. One of the solution approaches to this class of problems is K-adaptability. This approach simultaneously seeks the best partitioning of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Esther Julien , Krzysztof Postek , Ş. İlker Birbil

In this paper, we study nonconvex constrained optimization problems with both equality and inequality constraints, covering deterministic and stochastic settings. We propose a novel first-order algorithm framework that employs a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Qiankun Shi , Xiao Wang

We propose a general solution approach for min-max-robust counterparts of combinatorial optimization problems with uncertain linear objectives. We focus on the discrete scenario case, but our approach can be extended to other types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Enrico Bettiol , Christoph Buchheim , Marianna De Santis , Francesco Rinaldi

The k-defensive domination problem is a powerful modeling tool for strategic decision-making in network security and disaster/emergency management, where multiple nodes may be simultaneously under attack. Despite its practical relevance,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Bilge Varol , Tınaz Ekim , Kübra Tanınmış

Bilevel optimization formulates hierarchical decision-making processes that arise in many real-world applications such as in pricing, network design, and infrastructure defense planning. In this paper, we consider a class of bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Geunyeong Byeon , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Benders decomposition is one of the most applied methods to solve two-stage stochastic problems (TSSP) with a large number of scenarios. The main idea behind the Benders decomposition is to solve a large problem by replacing the values of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Cristian Ramírez-Pico , Ivana Ljubić , Eduardo Moreno

We present a finitely convergent cutting-plane algorithm for solving a general mixed-integer convex program given an oracle for solving a general convex program. This method is extended to solve a family of two-stage mixed-integer convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Fengqiao Luo , Shibshankar Dey , Sanjay Mehrotra

In this work we study binary two-stage robust optimization problems with objective uncertainty. We present an algorithm to calculate efficiently lower bounds for the binary two-stage robust problem by solving alternately the underlying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Nicolas Kämmerling , Jannis Kurtz

Task and motion planning under Signal Temporal Logic constraints is known to be NP-hard. A common class of approaches formulates these hybrid problems, which involve discrete task scheduling and continuous motion planning, as mixed-integer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jiming Ren , Xuan Lin , Roman Mineyev , Karen M. Feigh , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

This paper proposes an algorithm to efficiently solve multistage stochastic programs with block separable recourse where each recourse problem is a multistage stochastic program with stage-wise independent uncertainty. The algorithm first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Nicolò Mazzi , Ken Mckinnon , Hongyu Zhang

Uncertain optimization problems with decision dependent information discovery allow the decision maker to control the timing of information discovery, in contrast to the classic multistage setting where uncertain parameters are revealed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Rosario Paradiso , Angelos Georghiou , Said Dabia , Denise Tönissen

Benders decomposition is widely used to solve large mixed-integer problems. This paper takes advantage of machine learning and proposes enhanced variants of Benders decomposition for solving two-stage stochastic security-constrained unit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Fouad Hasan , Amin Kargarian

This paper presents a new exact method to calculate worst-case parameter realizations in two-stage robust optimization problems with categorical or binary-valued uncertain data. Traditional exact algorithms for these problems, notably…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Anirudh Subramanyam

We study a class of bilevel optimization problems in which both the upper- and lower-level problems have minimax structures. This setting captures a broad range of emerging applications. Despite the extensive literature on bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yiyang Shen , Yutian He , Weiran Wang , Qihang Lin
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