The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of families of cutting planes for mixed integer programming problems. We examine the families of disjunctive inequalities, split cuts, mixed integer rounding inequalities, mixed integer Gomory cuts, intersection cuts, lift-and-project cuts, and reduceand-split cuts. In practice, mixed integer Gomory cuts are very useful in obtaining solutions ...

Mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) is the problem of optimizing a quadratic function over points in a polyhedral set where some of the components are restricted to be integral. In this paper, we prove that the decision version of mixed-integer quadratic programming is in NP, thereby showing that it is NP-complete. This is established by showing that if the decision version of mixed-inte...

Answer set programming is a programming paradigm where a given problem is formalized as a logic program whose answer sets correspond to the solutions to the problem. In this paper, we link answer set programming with another widely applied paradigm, viz. mixed integer programming. As a theoretical result, we establish translations from non-disjunctive logic programs to linear constraints used i...

We present the application of Genetic Programming (GP) in Branch and Bound (B&B) based Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MIP). The hybrid architecture introduced employs GP as a node selection expression generator: a GP run, embedded into the B&B process, exploits the characteristics of the particular MIP problem being solved, evolving a problem-specific node selection method. The evolved metho...

Mixed integer programming (MIP) is a powerful modelling tool for decision-making in the industry and in the public sector. Integer requirements are essential to model a wide variety of situations involving assignment restrictions, logical constraints and yes/no decisions, to name a few. Usually real-life applications result in mixed integer programs that are large in size and that are beyond th...

mathematical modeling of supply chain operations has proven to be one of the most complex tasks in the field of operations management and operations research. despite the abundance of several modeling proposals in the literature; for vast majority of them, no effective universal application is conceived. this issue renders the proposed mathematical models inapplicable due largely to the fact th...

today, due to the direct and reverse logistics plays an important role in reducing the costs in supply chain. in this paper, in order to provide a closed-loop supply chain network including supply centers, production, distribution, collection, recycling and disposal of a used linear mixed integer programming. this paper to consider multi-period and multi-product in multi-level supply chain and ...

proposing a robust designed facility location is one of the most effective ways to hedge against unexpected disruptions and failures in a transportation network system. this paper considers the combined facility location/network design problem with regard to transportation link disruptions and develops a mixed integer linear programming formulation to model it. with respect to the probability o...

In this contribution we apply different approaches to solve four rather different MINLP problems: special extensions to time-indexed formulations of production planning problems, a production planning problem in BASF’s petrochemical division, a site analysis of one of BASF’s bigger sites, and a process design problem. The first problem is related to a useful nonlinear extension of production pl...