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 ...

We present a method for approximating the solution of mixed integer nonconcave programming problems in bounded variables. We present computational results for 39 test problems which suggest that the ...

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 ...