An MINLP solution method for a water network problem

Authors:
Cristiana Bragalli;Claudia D'Ambrosio;Jon Lee;Andrea Lodi;Paolo Toth
Affiliations:
DISTART, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;DEIS, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;DEIS, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy and IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;DEIS, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Venue:
ESA'06 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Annual European Symposium - Volume 14
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We propose a solution method for a water-network optimization problem using a nonconvex continuous NLP relaxation and an MINLP search. We report successful computational experience using available MINLP software on problems from the literature and on difficult real-world instances.