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Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) plays an important role across a range of scientific disciplines and within areas of strategic importance to society. The MILP problems, however, suffer from combinatorial complexity. Because of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Mikhail A. Bragin , Emily L. Tucker

We present the mathematical modeling for the problem of choosing rooms and proctoring crews for massive tests, together with its implementation as the open-box system RaPID-Omega. The mathematical model is a binary integer programming…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Fernando A. Morales

In this paper, we propose an approach to formulate the Weapon Target Assignment (WTA) problem with physical and seeker interference constraints which is solvable in Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP). To handle the interference…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Min-Kyu Shin , Daniel Lee , Han-Lim Choi

We consider the Continuous Energy-Constrained Scheduling Problem (CECSP). A set of jobs has to be processed on a continuous, shared resource. A schedule for a job consists of a start time, completion time, and a resource consumption…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Roel Brouwer , Marjan van den Akker , Han Hoogeveen

We study the demand-robust fleet size vehicle routing problem with time windows and compatibility constraints. Unlike traditional robust optimization, which considers uncertainty in the data, demand-robust optimization considers uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Jordan Makansi

We consider a capacitated job shop problem with order acceptance. This research is motivated by the management of a research and development project pipeline for a company in the agricultural industry whose success depends on regularly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Florian Linß , Mike Hewitt , Janis S. Neufeld , Udo Buscher

The multi-depot vehicle scheduling problem (MDVSP) is a critical planning challenge for transit agencies. We introduce a novel approach to MDVSP by incorporating service reliability through chance-constrained programming (CCP), targeting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Margarita P. Castro , Merve Bodur , Amer Shalaby

This research investigates a multi-product capacitated lot-sizing and scheduling problem incorporating a novel learning effect, namely the period-based learning effect. This is inspired by a real case in a core analysis laboratory under a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Mohammad Rohaninejad , Behdin Vahedi-Nouri , Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam , Zdeněk Hanzálek

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kobe Grobben , Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman

This paper introduces a very general discrete covering location model that accounts for uncertainty and time-dependent aspects. A MILP formulation is proposed for the problem. Afterwards, it is observed that most of the models existing in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Alfredo Marín , Luisa I. Martínez-Merino , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía , Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama

The effects of personnel scheduling on the quality of care and working conditions for healthcare personnel have been thoroughly documented. However, the ever-present demand and large variation of constraints make healthcare scheduling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Alvin Combrink , Stephie Do , Kristofer Bengtsson , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

Due to the restricted resources, efficient scheduling in vertiports has received much more attention in the field of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). For the scheduling problem, we utilize a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP), which is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Jeongseok Kim , Kangjin Kim

This paper proposes a framework for scheduling the observation and download tasks of multiple agile satellites with practical considerations such as attitude transition time, onboard data capacity, and stereoscopic image acquisition. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Junhong Kim , Doo-Hyun Cho , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) is NP-hard, and yet modern solvers often solve large real-world problems within minutes. This success can partially be attributed to heuristics. Since their behavior is highly instance-dependent, relying on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Antonia Chmiela , Ambros Gleixner , Pawel Lichocki , Sebastian Pokutta

The Oven Scheduling Problem (OSP) is an NP-hard real-world parallel batch scheduling problem arising in the semiconductor industry. The objective of the problem is to schedule a set of jobs on ovens while minimizing several factors, namely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Francesca Da Ros , Marie-Louise Lackner , Nysret Musliu

We study two canonical online optimization problems under capacity/budget constraints: the fractional one-way trading problem (OTP) and the integral online knapsack problem (OKP) under an infinitesimal assumption. Under the competitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ying Cao , Bo Sun , Danny H. K. Tsang

Knapsack problems (KPs) are common in industry, but solving KPs is known to be NP-hard and has been tractable only at a relatively small scale. This paper examines KPs in a slightly generalized form and shows that they can be solved nearly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Xingwen Zhang , Feng Qi , Zhigang Hua , Shuang Yang

The Vehicle Routing Problem with pickups, deliveries and spatiotemporal service constraints ($VRPPDSTC$) is a quite challenging algorithmic problem that can be dealt with in either an offline or an online fashion. In this work, we focus on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Spyros Kontogiannis , Andreas Paraskevopoulos , Christos Zaroliagis

Several recent publications report advances in training optimal decision trees (ODT) using mixed-integer programs (MIP), due to algorithmic advances in integer programming and a growing interest in addressing the inherent suboptimality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Haoran Zhu , Pavankumar Murali , Dzung T. Phan , Lam M. Nguyen , Jayant R. Kalagnanam

Benchmark instances for the unbounded knapsack problem are typically generated according to specific criteria within a given constant range $R$, and these instances can be referred to as the unbounded knapsack problem with bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yang Yang