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Reformulations in Mathematical Programming: Definitions

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Reformulations in Mathematical Programming: Definitions
Abstract. A reformulation of a mathematical program is a formulation which shares some properties with, but is in some sense better than, the original program. Reformulations are important with respect to the choice and efficiency of the solution algorithms; furthermore, it is desirable that reformulations can be carried out automatically. Reformulation techniques are very common in mathematical programming but interestingly they have never been studied under a common framework. This paper attempts to move some steps in this direction. We define a framework for storing and manipulating mathematical programming formulations, give several fundamental definitions categorizing reformulations in essentially four types (opt-reformulations, narrowings, relaxations and approximations). We establish some theoretical results and give reformulation examples for each type.
Leo Liberti
Added 29 Oct 2010
Updated 29 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2008
Where COLOGNETWENTE
Authors Leo Liberti
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