This is a summary of the main results presented in the author's PhD thesis, supervised by D. Conforti and P. Beraldi and defended on March 2005. The thesis, written in English...
The problem of optimal synthesis of an integrated water system is addressed in this work, where water using processes and water treatment operations are combined into a single net...
This paper is motivated by the fact that mixed integer nonlinear programming is an important and difficult area for which there is a need for developing new methods and software f...
Pierre Bonami, Lorenz T. Biegler, Andrew R. Conn, ...
In this paper we propose a new hybrid heuristic for solving 0-1 mixed integer programs based on the principle of variable neighbourhood decomposition search. It combines variable ...