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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

Exactly solving multi-objective integer programming (MOIP) problems is often a very time consuming process, especially for large and complex problems. Parallel computing has the potential to significantly reduce the time taken to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-02 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

Finding a high-quality feasible solution to a combinatorial optimization (CO) problem in a limited time is challenging due to its discrete nature. Recently, there has been an increasing number of machine learning (ML) methods for addressing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Taehyun Yoon , Jinwon Choi , Hyokun Yun , Sungbin Lim

Activities involving transformation of raw materials, various resources and components into final products and also delivering it to the end customer incur a significant cost during the selection of location of a warehouse that can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Brian Houck , Chetan Sampat , Srijit Maiti , Shivam S , Anurag Vaishistha , Sumit Banerjee

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is a powerful tool for addressing a wide range of real-world problems, but it lacks a clear structure for comparing instances. A reliable similarity metric could establish meaningful relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Gwen Maudet , Grégoire Danoy

Collision-tolerant trajectory planning is the consideration that collisions, if they are planned appropriately, enable more effective path planning for robots capable of handling them. A mixed integer programming (MIP) optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mark L. Mote , Juan-Pablo Afman , Eric Feron

There has been a surge of interest in learning optimal decision trees using mixed-integer programs (MIP) in recent years, as heuristic-based methods do not guarantee optimality and find it challenging to incorporate constraints that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shivaram Subramanian , Wei Sun

In multi-robot multi-target tracking, robots coordinate to monitor groups of targets moving about an environment. We approach planning for such scenarios by formulating a receding-horizon, multi-robot sensing problem with a mutual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Micah Corah , Nathan Michael

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) has been extensively applied in areas requiring mathematical solvers to address complex instances within tight time constraints. However, as the problem scale increases, the complexity of model formulation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Teng Wang , Wing-Yin Yu , Ruifeng She , Wenhan Yang , Taijie Chen , Jianping Zhang

Determining the maximum demand a water distribution network can satisfy is crucial for ensuring reliable supply and planning network expansion. This problem, typically formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP), is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Sai Krishna Kanth Hari , Russell Bent

We study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning on graphs MPP over four distinct minimization objectives: the makespan (last arrival time), the maximum (single-robot traveled) distance, the total arrival time, and the total…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Jingjin Yu , Steven M. LaValle

For almost two decades, mixed integer programming (MIP) solvers have used graph-based conflict analysis to learn from local infeasibilities during branch-and-bound search. In this paper, we improve MIP conflict analysis by instead using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Gioni Mexi , Felipe Serrano , Timo Berthold , Ambros Gleixner , Jakob Nordström

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) serves as a versatile framework for modeling a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems, typically addressed by sophisticated exact solvers or heuristics. While learning-based approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kyuil Sim , Sanghyeok Choi , Jinkyoo Park

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulations of Markov random fields (MRFs) models with global connectivity priors were investigated previously in computer vision, e.g., \cite{globalinter,globalconn}. In these works, only Linear Programing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Ruobing Shen , Eric Kendinibilir , Ismail Ben Ayed , Andrea Lodi , Andrea Tramontani , Gerhard Reinelt

This paper introduces $\Delta$-MILP, a powerful variant of the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) optimization framework to solve NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) scheduling problem. This work is an extension of our original MILP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Thomas Claudet , Ryan Alimo , Edwin Goh , Mark Johnston , Ramtin Madani , Brian Wilson

We present a solver for Mixed Integer Programs (MIP) developed for the MIP competition 2022. Given the 10 minutes bound on the computational time established by the rules of the competition, our method focuses on finding a feasible solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Warley Almeida Silva , Federico Bobbio , Flore Caye , Defeng Liu , Justine Pepin , Carl Perreault-Lafleur , William St-Arnaud

Security-Constrained Unit Commitment is a fundamental optimization problem in power systems operations. The primary computational bottleneck arises from the need to solve large-scale Linear Programming (LP) relaxations within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Jinxin Xiong , Yanting Huang , Yingxiao Wang , Linxin Yang , Jianghua Wu , Shunbo Lei , Akang Wang

This paper studies the Graph-Connected Clique-Partitioning Problem (GCCP), a clustering optimization model in which units are characterized by both individual and relational data. This problem, introduced by Benati et al. (2017) under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Stefano Benati , Diego Ponce , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a fundamental class of NP-hard problems that has garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. The Branch-and-Bound (B\&B) method is the dominant approach for solving MILPs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Tongkai Lu , Shuai Ma , Chongyang Tao

Risk assessment tools in healthcare commonly employ point-based scoring systems that map patients to ordinal risk categories via thresholds. While electronic health record (EHR) data presents opportunities for data-driven optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Fardin Ganjkhanloo , Emmett Springer , Erik H. Hoyer , Daniel L. Young , Kimia Ghobadi