To make things worse, the problems are nonlinear and have mixed-integer decisions," explains Potschka. "Most approaches so far either drop the nonlinearity in favor of a relatively coarse piecewise ...

An important class of mathematical programming problems is the scheduling of manufacturing and transportation systems. In many cases, the independent variables which describe the manufacturing system ...

Mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) optimisation constitutes a critical methodology in tackling complex decision-making problems where both discrete choices and continuous variables are ...