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Deterministic Optimization (Official Master's Degree in Research in Engineering Systems Modeling, year 2015-16)

News: Due date of the report January 19.


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
Applications

Sep 15, 2015

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

Algebraic modeling languages.


Sep 22, 2015
Algebraic modeling languages. Optimization Cases

Sep 29, 2015
Algebraic modeling languages. Optimization Cases

Oct 6, 2015
LINEAR PROGRAMMING.
Introduction. Geometry. Properties. Graphical simplex method. Standard form. Basic solution. Partition.

Mathematical Programming Glossary

Linear Programming FAQ (2005)

2015 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) June 2022

GOOD OPTIMIZATION MODELING PRACTICES with Pyomo (All You Wanted to Know About Practical Optimization but Were Afraid to Ask) June 2022


Oct 13, 2015
Reduced cost. Pivoting. Simplex method.

Task assignment

El Arte de Presentar

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


Oct 20, 2015
Tabular form. Initial basic feasible solution.

Oct 27, 2015

Revised simplex. Product form of the inverse. Base matrix factorization. Strategies of computing reduced costs. Dual problem. Dual variables. Economic interpretation.

Security Constrained Unit-Commitment

Nov 3, 2015
Primal-dual interior point method. Short-term maintenance scheduling

Nov 10, 2015

Primal-dual interior point method.


Convexification of ACOPF via moment relaxations in the Lasserre hierarchy

Nov 17, 2015
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

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

Bond portfolio index

Nov 24, 2015

MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING.
Branch and bound. Duality.

On-line Guide to Constraint Programming Water distribution of a community

Dec 1, 2015
Preprocessing. Branch and cut.

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

An Efficient Approach to Car-sharing

Dec 15, 2015
NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION.
Unconstrained problem optimality conditions.

Nonlinear Programming FAQ (2007)

1998 Nonlinear Programming Software Survey

Optimal Schedule of Appliances in Smart Homes

Dec 22, 2015
Constrained problem optimality conditions.

S. Burer and A.N. Letchfordy Non-Convex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming: A Survey February 2012

S. Leyffer and A. Mahajanm Nonlinear Constrained Optimization: Methods and Software March 2010

MINLP

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

Network Theory Applied to TEP

Jan 12, 2016
Unconstrained problem solution methods. Constrained problem solution methods.