This contribution presents a numerical evaluation of the impact of parallelization on the performance of an evolutionary algorithm for mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP). On a set of 200 MINLP benchmarks the performance of the MIDACO solver is assessed with gradually increasing parallelization factor from one to three hundred. The results demonstrate that the efficiency of the algorith...

This paper studies the multi-stage supply chain system (MSSCM) controlled by the kanban mechanism. In the kanban system, decision making is based on the number of kanbans as well as batch sizes. A kanban mechanism is employed to assist in linking different production processes in a supply chain system in order to implement the scope of just-in-time (JIT) philosophy. For a MSSCM, a mixed-integer...

Many applications must ingest and analyze data that are continuously generated over time from geographically distributed sources such as users, sensors and devices. This results in the need for efficient data analytics in geo-distributed systems. Energy efficiency is a fundamental requirement in these distributed systems, and its importance is reflected in much recent work on performance analys...

This paper provides a survey of recent progress and software for solving convex mixed integer nonlinear programs (MINLP)s, where the objective and constraints are defined by convex functions and integrality restrictions are imposed on a subset of the decision variables. Convex MINLPs have received sustained attention in recent years. By exploiting analogies to well-known techniques for solving ...

This paper addresses the optimal location and sizing of photovoltaic (PV) sources in isolated direct current (DC) electrical networks, considering time-varying load renewable generation curves. The mathematical formulation this problem corresponds to mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP), which is reformulated via convex optimization: ensures global optimum solving resulting optimization ...

Many industrial problems can be naturally formulated using Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) models and can be solved by spatial Branch&Bound (sBB) techniques. We study the impact of two important parts of sBB methods: bounds tightening and branching strategies. We extend a branching technique originally developed for MILP, reliability branching, to the MINLP case. Motivated by the de...

Process Synthesis seeks to develop systematically process flowsheets that convert raw materials into desired products. In recent years, the optimization approach to process synthesis has shown promise in tackling this challenge. It requires the development of a network of interconnected units, the process superstructure, that represents the alternative process flowsheets. The mathematical model...

The cluster heads (CHs) will face the contradiction between lack of available energy and demand high consumption in harvesting-supported device-to-device multicast communications (EH-D2MD). Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology is a possible way to address above contradiction. members (D2D) can part their CH by WPT jointly undertake contents unloading. As result, transmission robustness be i...

Leak and backflow detections are essential aspects of Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) monitoring and are commonly fulfilled using approaches that are based on static sensor networks and point measurements. Alternatively, we propose a mobile, wireless sensor network solution composed of mobile sensor nodes that travel freely inside the pipes with the water flow, collect and transmit measuremen...

Strong branching is an effective branching technique that can significantly reduce the size of the branch-and-bound tree for solving Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problems. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate how to effectively use “discarded” information from strong branching to strengthen relaxations of MINLP problems. Valid inequalities such as branching-based linearizati...