Facility layout problems are an important class of operations research problems that has been studied for several decades. Most variants of facility layout ...

Electric utilities have been using wind power to an increasing extent in order to provide clean energy. However, this resource depends on the intermittency o...

It is well known that the mixed linear complementarity problem can be used to model the equilibrium in energy markets as well as a host of other engineering ...

A critical step of any cutting plane algorithm is to find valid inequalities, or cuts, that improve the current relaxation of the integer-constrained problem...

The unequal-areas facility layout problem is concerned with finding the optimal arrangement of a given number of non-overlapping indivisible departments with...

The facility layout problem is a well-known operations research problem that arises in multiple applications. This paper is concerned with the multi-row layo...

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...

Ce rapport propose deux stratégies de fixation des prix de l'électricité pour un maire d'une petite ville américaine de 16 000 habitants. Une implémentation ...

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...