The optimal location for establishing logistics centers is of great importance in reducing costs and improving supply chain efficiency. This paper aims to provide a conceptual framework finding the capacity village establishment using mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). proposed model applied on Qazvin province, Iran, as developing country with strategic international transport corridors. ...

This work addresses the large-scale crude oil scheduling problem of China’s SINOPEC Maoming refinery importing various types of crude oil from two terminals via long-distance pipelines. A hierarchical decomposition approach is employed to construct a two-stage MILP model of the practical refinery operations. In the upper level model, storage and charging tanks are aggregated to determine the in...

In this work, we introduce the multiscale production routing problem (MPRP), which considers the coordination of production, inventory, distribution, and routing decisions in multicommodity supply chains with complex production facilities. We propose an MILP model involving two different time grids. While a detailed mode-based production scheduling model captures all critical operational constr...

In this paper we propose a procedure for synthesizing piecewise linear optimal controllers for hybrid systems and investigate conditions for closed-loop stability. Hybrid systems are modeled in discrete-time within the mixed logical dynamical (MLD) framework [8], or, equivalently [7], as piecewise affine (PWA) systems. A stabilizing controller is obtained by designing a model predictive control...

A new continuous-time MILP model for the short term scheduling of multipurpose batch plants with due dates is presented. The proposed model is a general State Task Network (STN) formulation that accounts for variable batch sizes and processing times, various storage policies (UIS/FIS/NIS/ZW), utility constraints (other than units), and allows for batch mixing and splitting. Its key features are...

The huge time and memory complexities of utilizing bitbased division property, which was first presented by Todo and Morri at FSE 2016, bothered cryptographers for quite some time and it had been solved by Xiang et al. at ASIACRYPT 2016. They applied MILP method to search integral distinguisher based on division property, and used it to analyze six lightweight block ciphers. Later on, Sun et al...

The design and operating of energy systems are key issues for matching the energy supply and consumption. Several optimization methods based on the Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) have been developed for this purpose. However, due to the uncertainty, analyzing only one optimum solution with mono objective function is not sufficient for sizing the energy system. In this study, first a mu...

This paper presents an intellectual property (IP)-based system-on-chip (SoC) synthesis framework focusing on how to select IPs from different sources and how to integrate the selected IPs using on-chip buses. In order to synthesize an on-chip bus-based SoC architecture using IPs with imprecise design costs, we propose a possibilistic mixed integer linear programming (PMILP) model, which is conv...