A special ordered set approach for optimizing a discontinuous separable piecewise linear function

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-238

  de Farias Jr , I R ^a   Zhao, M ^a   Zhao, H ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Piecewise linear optimization; Special ordered set

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING RELAXATION; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP) MODEL; SPECIAL ORDERED SET;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 39149085719     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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