Global optimization of nonlinear mixed-integer programming (MINLP) addresses decision problems in which some variables are constrained to take integer values, while the objective function or ...

Abstract: The weak bilevel programming problem is characterized by the decision-making process that the follower has nonunique solutions and reacts to the leader by providing the worst one. We are ...

Aim to minimize the combined fixed and transportation costs by deciding which of five plants to keep open or what have to close.

Electrodialysis (ED) presents a competitive method for desalinating brackish waters. Herein we perform cost optimization of a single-stack ED system across a range of feed salinities and water ...

CasADi is a symbolic framework for numeric optimization implementing automatic differentiation in forward and reverse modes on sparse matrix-valued computational graphs. It supports self-contained ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters won council elections, and have refused to fund campus groups, like the men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, unless their divestment demands are met. Pro-Palestinian activists last ...

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the aggregate gains from trade with a focus on the role of non-convexity. After reviewing the example presented by Ricardo, we develop a general equilibrium model of ...

College of Economic and Management, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China.

Abstract: By redefining multiplier associated with inequality constraint as a positive definite function of the originally-defined multiplier, u i 2, i = 1, 2,..., m, say, the nonnegative constraints ...