We present a generic branch-and-bound algorithm for finding all the Pareto solutions of biobjective mixed-integer linear program. The main contributions are new algorithms obtaining dual bounds at node, checking node fathoming, presolve, and duality gap measurement. Our is predominantly decision space search method because branching performed on variables, akin to single objective problems, alt...

A Nonlinear Mixed Integer Programming approach is presented to select the number of membrane modules required in the extraction and stripping sectors of a Non Dispersive Solvent Extraction Plant for effluent treatment and metal recovery. The differential equations that model each membrane module are discretized using orthogonal collocation on finite elements leading to an algebraic system of eq...

An algorithm for solving linear programming problems can be used as a subroutine in methods for more complicated problems. Such methods usually involve solving a sequence of related linear programming problems, where the solution to one linear program is close to the solution to the next, that is, it provides a warm start for the next linear program. The branch and cut method for solving intege...

An integer linear program (ILP) is symmetric if its variables can be permuted without changing the structure of the problem. Areas where symmetric ILPs arise range from applied settings (scheduling on identical machines), to combinatorics (code construction), and to statistics (statistical designs construction). Relatively small symmetric ILPs are extremely difficult to solve using branch-and-c...