The field of mixed integer programming addresses optimisation problems characterised by both continuous and discrete decision variables subject to linear constraints. Traditional exact methods, ...

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Global optimization of nonlinear mixed-integer programming (MINLP) addresses decision problems in which some variables are constrained to take integer values, while the objective function or ...

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