This paper addresses the problem of guaranteeing efficient inland waterway transport in presence sequential movable bridges, which must be operated to grant vessel passage. The main contribution is formulation passage scheduling as a mixed-integer programming problem. algorithm receives widths and voyage plans, determines feasible through bridges that best matches plans. Process optimization ca...

<abstract><p>In this manuscript, we consider well-known multi-task learning (MTL) models from the literature for linear regression problems, such as clustered MTL or weakly constrained MTL. We propose novel reformulations of training problem these models, based on mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) techniques. show that our approach allows to drive optimization process up ce...

Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that could be used as a decision support tool for a post-disaster response that allows the assignment of victims to hospitals and organizes their transportation via emergency vehicles. By exploiting the synergy between Mixe...

Convexity assumptions for fractional programming of variational type are relaxed to generalized invexity. The sufficient optimality conditions are employed to construct a mixed dual programming problem. It will involve the Wolfe type dual and Mond-Weir type dual as its special situations. Several duality theorems concerning weak, strong, and strict converse duality under the framework in mixed ...

in the process of milk production, the highest cost relates to animal feed. based on reports provided by the experts, around seventy percent of dairy livestock costs included feed costs. in order to minimize the total price of livestock feed, according to the limits of feed sources in each region or season, and also the transportation and maintenance costs and ultimately milk price reduction, o...