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CP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Solving Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming Problems by Constraint Partitioning
Abstract. In this paper, we present a constraint-partitioning approach for finding local optimal solutions of large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs). Ba...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen
CCE
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Global optimization for the synthesis of integrated water systems in chemical processes
In this paper, we address the problem of optimal synthesis of an integrated water system, where water using processes and water treatment operations are combined into a single net...
Ramkumar Karuppiah, Ignacio E. Grossmann
INFORMATICALT
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Interval Arithmetic Based Optimization in Nonlinear Regression
The optimization problems occurring in nonlinear regression normally cannot be proven unimodal. In the present paper applicability of global optimization algorithms to this problem...
Antanas Zilinskas, Julius Zilinskas
CASC
2010
Springer
151views Mathematics» more  CASC 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Supporting Global Numerical Optimization of Rational Functions by Generic Symbolic Convexity Tests
Convexity is an important property in nonlinear optimization since it allows to apply efficient local methods for finding global solutions. We propose to apply symbolic methods t...
Winfried Neun, Thomas Sturm, Stefan Vigerske
CVPR
2005
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Shape Regularized Active Contour Using Iterative Global Search and Local Optimization
Recently, nonlinear shape models have been shown to improve the robustness and flexibility of segmentation. In this paper, we propose Shape Regularized Active Contour (ShRAC) that...
Tianli Yu, Jiebo Luo, Narendra Ahuja