Conic optimization refers to the problem of optimizing a linear function over the intersection of an affine space and a closed convex cone. Conic optimizat...

A smart grid is the combination of a traditional electrical power distribution system with two-way communication between suppliers and consumers. This combin...

This report proposes two electricity pricing strategies for the Major of an American town of 16,000 people. An implementation with the AIMMS software is pres...

This paper is concerned with the Multi-Row Facility Layout Problem. Given a set of rectangular facilities, a fixed number of rows, and weights for each pair ...

In this paper, we propose a model for an energy broker who acts as a third party between the grid and its clients, through the maintenance of a two-sided po...

This paper provides new results on the application of semidefinite optimization to satisfiability by studying the connection between semidefinite optimizatio...

Hybrid power systems for off-grid sites are commonly designed using simulation. Operating rules for the controller dispatch strategy are defined, and a sim...

Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) with load uncertainty is modeled in this paper using chance constrained programming, and new iterative solution algorit...

Many important NP-hard combinatorial problems can be efficiently approximated using semidefinite programming relaxations. We propose a new hierarchy of sem...

This paper deals with the development of an efficient iterative method to solve the chance-constrained generation expansion planning (GEP) problem. Reliabili...

The integer least squares problem is an important problem that arises in numerous applications. We propose a real relaxation-based branch-and-bound (RRBB) ...

The unit commitment problem is a fundamental problem in the operation of power systems. The purpose of unit commitment is to minimize the system-wide cost o...

The past decade has seen advances in general methods for symmetry breaking in mixed-integer linear programming. These methods are advantageous for general ...

This paper is concerned with computing global optimal solutions for maximum k-cut problems. We improve on the SBC algorithm of Ghaddar, Anjos and Liers in...

This paper presents the design, implementation, and the first experimental results of an architecture for autonomous demand-side load management (ADSM) syste...

A minimum equicut of an edge-weighted graph is a partition of the nodes of the graph into two sets of equal size such that the sum of the weights of ed...

Facility layout is a well-known operations research problem that arises in numerous areas of applications. The multi-row facility layout problem is concerne...

This paper presents a system architecture for demand side load management in the Smart Grid, which is composed of three main modules for admission control, l...

The maximum-stable-set and maximum-clique problems are operations research problems that arise in numerous areas such as social networking, electrical engin...

We present a new primal-dual interior-point algorithm for linear programming problems with equality and inequality constraints. The inequality constraints ar...