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Transmission system operators face a variety of discrete operational decisions, such as switching of branches and/or devices. Incorporating these decisions into optimal power flow (OPF) results in mixed-integer non-linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Constance Crozier

Recently there has been a lot of progress in the development of economic nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) schemes for multistage optimal power flow (OPF) problems. However, the additional inclusion of discrete decision variables to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jürgen Gutekunst , Armin Nurkanovic , Ekaterina Kostina , Hans Georg Bock , Robert Scholz , Amer Mesanovic

We present a specialized network simplex algorithm for the budget-constrained minimum cost flow problem, which is an extension of the traditional minimum cost flow problem by a second kind of costs associated with each edge, whose total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Michael Holzhauser , Sven O. Krumke , Clemens Thielen

We present a nearly-linear time algorithm for finding a minimum-cost flow in planar graphs with polynomially bounded integer costs and capacities. The previous fastest algorithm for this problem is based on interior point methods (IPMs) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sally Dong , Yu Gao , Gramoz Goranci , Yin Tat Lee , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Guanghao Ye

In this letter, we present an alternative mixed-integer non-liner programming formulation of the reactive optimal power flow (ROPF) problem. We utilize a mixed-integer second-order cone programming (MISOCP) based approach to find global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Sezen Ece Kayacık , Burak Kocuk

We consider an undirected graph $G = (VG, EG)$ with a set $T \subseteq VG$ of terminals, and with nonnegative integer capacities $c(v)$ and costs $a(v)$ of nodes $v\in VG$. A path in $G$ is a \emph{$T$-path} if its ends are distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-07 Maxim A. Babenko , Alexander V. Karzanov

Nonlinear power flow constraints render a variety of power system optimization problems computationally intractable. Emerging research shows, however, that the nonlinear AC power flow equations can be successfully modeled using Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Alyssa Kody , Samuel Chevalier , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis , Daniel Molzahn

The Optimal power flow (OPF) problem contains many constraints. However, equality constraints along with a limited set of active inequality constraints encompass sufficient information to determine the feasible space of the problem. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Fouad Hasan , Amin Kargarian , Javad Mohammadi

This article focuses on a biobjective extension of the maximum flow network interdiction problem, where each arc in the network is associated with two capacity values. Two maximum flows from a source to a sink are to be computed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Luca E. Schäfer , Stefan Ruzika , Sven O. Krumke , Carlos M. Fonseca

In this paper, we consider mixed-integer nonsmooth constrained optimization problems whose objective/constraint functions are available only as the output of a black-box zeroth-order oracle (i.e., an oracle that does not provide derivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Tommaso Giovannelli , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Stefano Lucidi , Francesco Rinaldi

This paper introduces an improved recursive algorithm to generate the set of all nondominated objective vectors for the Multi-Objective Integer Programming (MOIP) problem. We significantly improve the earlier recursive algorithm of \"Ozlen…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Melih Ozlen , Benjamin A. Burton , Cameron A. G. MacRae

We explore here surprising links between the time-cost-tradeoff problem and the minimum cost flow problem that lead to fast, strongly polynomial, algorithms for both problems. One of the main results is a new algorithm for the unit capacity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Dorit S. Hochbaum

We consider the problem of Data Flow Analysis over monotone data flow frameworks with a finite lattice. The problem of computing the Maximum Fixed Point (MFP) solution is shown to be P-complete even when the lattice has just four elements.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Gaurav Sood , K. Murali Krishnan

When planning transportation whose operation requires non-consumable resources, the peak demand for allocated resources is often of higher interest than the duration of resource usage. For instance, it is more cost-effective to deliver…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mariia Anapolska , Emma Ahrens , Christina Büsing , Felix Engelhardt , Timo Gersing , Corinna Mathwieser , Sabrian Schmitz , Sophia Wrede

We provide faster strongly polynomial time algorithms solving maximum flow in structured $n$-node $m$-arc networks. Our results imply an $n^{\omega + o(1)}$-time strongly polynomial time algorithms for computing a maximum bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Daniel Dadush , James B. Orlin , Aaron Sidford , László A. Végh

Studying the propagation of uncertainties in a nonlinear dynamical system usually involves generating a set of samples in the stochastic parameter space and then repeated simulations with different sampled parameters. The main difficulty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Nan Jiang , Michael Schneier

In this paper, we present the first outer approximation algorithm for multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming problems with any number of objectives. The algorithm also works for certain classes of non-linear programming problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Fritz Bökler , Sophie N. Parragh , Markus Sinnl , Fabien Tricoire

Application of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) to problems with hybrid dynamical systems, disjoint constraints, or discrete controls often results in mixed-integer formulations with both continuous and discrete decision variables.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Christopher A. Orrico , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Dinesh Krishnamoorthy

In the framework of Model Predictive Control (MPC), the control input is typically computed by solving optimization problems repeatedly online. For general nonlinear systems, the online optimization problems are non-convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

With increasing share of renewables in power generation mix, system operators would need to run Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems closer to real-time to better manage uncertainty. Given that OPF is an expensive optimization problem to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Alex Robson , Mahdi Jamei , Cozmin Ududec , Letif Mones