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Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol.23, No.S, S11-S14, 1999
Automated reformulation of disjunctive constraints in MINLP optimization
In this paper, a general method for handling disjunctive constraints in a MINLP optimization problem is presented. This method automates the reformulation of an, in a abstract modeling language given, optimization problem into a mathematical problem that is solvable with existing optimization tools. This implementation can use common MILP solvers for linear problems and nonlinear methods for quasi-convex optimization problems. It also includes the possibility to use the logics in the system and solve the system logically using subproblems.
Keywords:disjunctive constraints;mixed integer non-linear programming;transformations;scheduling problems;process synthesis