Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica
Está usted en: Inicio > Centros > Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería (ICAI) > Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica > Andrés Ramos
[Principal] [Résumé/CV] [Material docente] [Operations Management] [Mathematical Methods] [Operations Research] [Técnicas de Optimización de Sistemas] [Modelado y Simulación de Sistemas] [Applied Optimization] [Statistics II] [Quantitative Decision Methods] [Optimization Techniques] [Deterministic Optimization] [Stochastic Optimization] [Investigación] [Open Models] [openSDUC] [openTEPES] [TEPES] [ROM] [StarNet] [FLOP] [iMetro]

Deterministic Optimization (Official Master's Degree in Research in Engineering Systems Modeling, year 2013-14)

News: Due date of the report January 10th.


Operations Research (the science of better):
Discipline that applies advanced analytical methods to take decisions to improve operations of a company.

A New View of Analytics and Operations Research

, Learn About O.R., The Executive Guide to Operational Research, Operational Research and EURO

L. Escudero y M.A. López SEIO y la historia de la IO en España Boletín de Estadística e Investigación Operativa 28 (1): 24-55, Feb 2012

F. Petropoulos et al. Operational Research: Methods and Applications March 2023

Life itself is a matter of OR

The current table reflects in a realistic way the course development during the several sessions. It allows the student to know in advance what is going to happen in each session in order to prepare the subject and to organize its work adequately.


Date
Theory
Additional readings
Presentations

Sep 10, 2013

Extract of the syllabus of the subject. Additional bibliography.
Hand out of the class notes and web page for slides.


Oct 1, 2013
LINEAR PROGRAMMING.
Introduction. Geometry. Properties. Graphical simplex method. Standard form. Basic solution. Partition.

Mathematical Programming Glossary

Linear Programming FAQ (2005)

2013 Linear Programming Software Survey

COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research Projects

GOOD OPTIMIZATION MODELING PRACTICES with GAMS (All You Wanted to Know About Practical Optimization but Were Afraid to Ask) September 2024

GOOD OPTIMIZATION MODELING PRACTICES with Pyomo (All You Wanted to Know About Practical Optimization but Were Afraid to Ask) September 2024

Task assignment

El Arte de Presentar

A very funny example: Kate Hartman: el arte de la indumentaria de comunicación


Oct 1, 2013
Reduced cost. Pivoting. Simplex method.

Oct 7, 2013
Tabular form. Initial basic feasible solution. Revised simplex. Product form of the inverse. Base matrix factorization. Strategies of computing reduced costs. Dual problem.

Oct 8, 2013
Dual variables. Economic interpretation.

Oct 15, 2013

Primal-dual interior point method.

Optimization of the performance of a PLC network under PRIME standard


Oct 22, 2013

MODELING OF MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS.
Piecewise linear. Convex and concave regions. Special ordered sets. Reformulation.

ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2010: A large-scale energy management problem with varied constraints

ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2012: Machine reassignment

RAS Problem Solving Competition 2010: Locomotive refueling problem

RAS Problem Solving Competition 2011: Train Design Optimization


Oct 29, 2013
MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING.

Nexus: Water and Energy Optimization Model


Nov 5, 2013
Branch and bound. Duality. On-line Guide to Constraint Programming

Electricity market modeling: Nash-Cournot equilibrium


Nov 12, 2013
Preprocessing.

G. Morales-España, J.M. Latorre, and A. Ramos Tight and Compact MILP Formulation for the Thermal Unit Commitment Problem IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 28 (4): 4897-4908, Nov 2013 10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2251373

G. Morales-España, J.M. Latorre, and A. Ramos Tight and Compact MILP Formulation of Start-Up and Shut-Down Ramping in Unit Commitment IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 28 (2): 1288-1296, May 2013 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2222938

R.E. Bixby et al. MIP: Theory and Lab Closing the Garp

Reliability option contracts. A simulation of auction results based on unit commitment


Nov 19, 2013
Branch and cut.

Train Speed Profile Optimization


Nov 26, 2013
NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION.
Unconstrained problem optimality conditions.

Nonlinear Programming FAQ (2007)

1998 Nonlinear Programming Software Survey

Minimizing the building time of 3D printed parts


Dec 3, 2013
Constrained problem optimality conditions. Unconstrained problem solution methods.

MINLP

COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research COIN/OR.

Web based optimization (NEOS Server for Optimization, Web Enabled Optimisation WebOpt).

Optimization of the operating charging of High-Speed railway line through optimal combination of different type of circulations


Dec 10, 2013
Constrained problem solution methods. Conjugate gradient.

Dec 17, 2013
Constrained problem solution methods. Conjugate gradient.





]