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Characterizing the solution of a (non) linear maximization program

I have the following maximization program \begin{align} \max\limits_{\{q_i\}}&\quad\sum\limits_{i=1}^nq_i \\ \text{s.t.}&\quad\begin{cases} k_j \geq \sum\limits_{i=1}^n q_i^{1 \over \...
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Solving large-scale stochastic mixed integer program

What are some methods or algorithms for solving a large-scale stochastic mixed-integer optimization problem that runs on an hourly dataset for a year? Do we employ some kind of decomposition? (the ...
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Airline revenue management re-solving problem

I am considering a bid prices (shadow price of the capacity constraint) problem (from Chen, L. and Homem-de Mello, T. (2009)., page 14) where the acceptable classes for booking requests for ...
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Sample Average Approximation vs. Numerical Integration

In the sense of the calculation of the expected value of objective functions, we have two choices to evaluate the value; 1. Sample Average Approximation (SAA): $$ \frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N f(x,\xi^i). $$...
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Water quality component optimization

I have an optimization problem that I'm attempting to tackle. As you can see in the image below, there's a graph network through which water flows. I've drawn out the problem in the image to explain ...
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How to write this objective in CVXPY for quasiconvex programming?

I have the following objective that I want to maximize: \begin{equation} \max_{U_T\in \mathbb{R}, x\in\mathbb{R}^T} J_\alpha(U_T) = \frac{\alpha}{\alpha-1}\log\left(\frac{\cosh(U_T)}{\cosh(\alpha U_T)^...
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Chance constrained optimization - interpretation

Suppose that we have a stochastic vector $\psi$ and $S$ realisations of $\psi$ given by $\psi_1,\dots,\psi_S$ with equal probability of occurrence. In addition, we have constraints of the form \begin{...
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Is there a way to use lazy constraints with Baron?

I am solving a non-linear mixed-integer programme with BARON. The objective function looks like $\big( \sum_i x_i \big) \cdot \big(\prod_i e^{-y_i}\big)$ (binary $x$ and real-valued $y$) and it has ...
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In a binary logistic regression context, how to introduce a constraint to model the dependency between consecutive samples

Imagine we are running a logistic regression to identify opportunities for car sale promotion, using previous promotion campaign's result. Each $y$ is the increase of car sale after the promotion. ...
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How to linearize or convexify a constraint with a square root of sum of two variables?

Here is the constraint: $$\text{Pa} + \text{Pb}=a + b \sqrt{\text{Ir}^2 +\text{Ii}^2} + c (\text{Ir}^2 +\text{Ii}^2)$$ Here $\text{Pa}, \text{Pb}, \text{Ir},$ and $\text{Ii}$ are variables. $a, b, c$ ...
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Stochastic optimization for inventory management

The deterministic problem is to minimize operational cost subject to constraints in demand, supply and capacity. The ordering policy is periodic review, order-up-to. The stochastic version of the ...
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Does knowing the "correct multipliers" for globally optimal first-order critical points help you algorithmically?

Consider the following nonlinear optimization problem: \begin{align*} &\min f(x) \\ \text{such that } &h_1(x) = 0, \\ &h_2(x) = 0, \\ & \vdots \\ & h_m(x) = 0, \end{align*} where $...
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Linearize a highly non-linear objective function

[EDIT] : The formula below is updated to remove the radical, 0.5 in the term $(I_{i,v} \cdot \Delta t)$ and constant temperature $T$ replces temperature as function of current. [EDIT] :The values of ...
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How to find range of values for the first-stage decisions resulting in the same cuts in two-stage stochastic programming?

Suppose we have a two-stage stochastic program as follows: \begin{equation} \begin{split} \min \ & c^Tx + \mathbb{E}_\xi[Q(x,\xi)] \\ & \text{where}\\ &Q(x,\xi)=\min q(\xi)^Ty\\ &Tx+...
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How can non-polyhedral sets be investigated?

To derive problem-specific cutting planes for some given problem (think something like TSP problem), one common way is to study small examples. To this end, one can create small instances for the ...

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