The Minimum Power Multicast Problem arises in wireless sensor networks and consists in assigning a transmission power to each node of a network in such a way that the total power consumption over the network is minimi...
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The Minimum Power Multicast Problem arises in wireless sensor networks and consists in assigning a transmission power to each node of a network in such a way that the total power consumption over the network is minimized, while a source node is connected to a set of destination nodes, toward which a message has to be sent periodically. A new mixedintegerprogramming model for the problem, based on paths, is presented. A practical exact algorithm based on column generation and branch and price is derived from this model. A comparison with state-of-the-art exact methods is presented, and it is shown that the new approach compares favorably to other algorithms when the number of destination nodes is moderate. Under this condition, the proposed method is able to solve previously unmanageable instances.
This paper analyzed the uniqueness and challenges in designing the logistics system for dedicated biomass-to-bioenergy industry, which differs from the other industries, due to the unique features of dedicated biomass...
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This paper analyzed the uniqueness and challenges in designing the logistics system for dedicated biomass-to-bioenergy industry, which differs from the other industries, due to the unique features of dedicated biomass (e.g., switchgrass) including its low bulk density, restrictions on harvesting season and frequency, content variation with time and circumambient conditions, weather effects, scattered distribution over a wide geographical area, and so on. To design it, this paper proposed a mixed integer linear programming model. It covered from planting and harvesting switchgrass to delivering to a biorefinery and included the residue handling, concentrating on integrating strategic decisions on the supply chain design and tactical decisions on the annual operation schedules. The present numerical examples verified the model and demonstrated its use in practice. This paper showed that the operations of the logistics system were significantly different for harvesting and non-harvesting seasons, and that under the well-designed biomass logistics system, the mass production with a steady and sufficient supply of biomass can increase the unit profit of bioenergy. The analytical model and practical methodology proposed in this paper will help realize the commercial production in biomass-to-bioenergy industry. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Nolde and Morari (2010) study a steel manufacturing scheduling problem where the tasks must be scheduled such that electricity consumption matches to a pre-specified periodic energy chart. They propose a continuous ti...
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Nolde and Morari (2010) study a steel manufacturing scheduling problem where the tasks must be scheduled such that electricity consumption matches to a pre-specified periodic energy chart. They propose a continuous time integerlinearprogramming formulation to solve the problem. In this note, we present an alternative continuous time formulation, focused on the relative positions of tasks and time periods, that improves significantly the computation time. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
We introduce a mixedintegerlinear modeling approach for the optimization of dynamic transport networks based on the piecewise linearization of nonlinear constraints and we show how to apply this method by two exampl...
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We introduce a mixedintegerlinear modeling approach for the optimization of dynamic transport networks based on the piecewise linearization of nonlinear constraints and we show how to apply this method by two examples, transient gas and water supply network optimization. We state the mixedintegerlinear programs for both cases and provide numerical evidence for their suitability.
This paper proposes a new framework in calculating the ex post prices for the spot electricity market. The proposed method finds a set of prices that are as consistent as possible with the actual outputs of resources ...
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This paper proposes a new framework in calculating the ex post prices for the spot electricity market. The proposed method finds a set of prices that are as consistent as possible with the actual outputs of resources correctly following their dispatch instructions. Two alternative consistency metrics are proposed in the paper. One measures the difference between the actual performance of an individual resource and its bid-based profit-maximizing response to the ex post prices in a perfectly competitive market. Another measures the difference between the ex post price and the price that supports the actual response of an individual resource. Compared to the existing approaches adopted in the real-time electricity markets in the U. S., the proposed method solves the ex post energy and ancillary service prices directly and simultaneously. It does not require heuristics that are hard to justify, and has a much clear definition for the pricing problem than the existing approaches do. Moreover, the proposed approach is flexible in the price control required by the market operators. Numerical examples are presented to further demonstrate the validity of this approach.
Bio-fuels represent promising candidates for renewable liquid fuels. One of the challenges for the emerging industry is the high level of uncertainty in supply amounts, market demands, market prices, and processing te...
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Bio-fuels represent promising candidates for renewable liquid fuels. One of the challenges for the emerging industry is the high level of uncertainty in supply amounts, market demands, market prices, and processing technologies. These uncertainties complicate the assessment of investment decisions. This paper presents a model for the optimal design of biomass supply chain networks under uncertainty. The uncertainties manifest themselves as a large number of stochastic model parameters that could impact the overall profitability and design. The supply chain network we study covers the Southeastern region of the United States and includes biomass supply locations and amounts, candidate sites and capacities for two kinds of fuel conversion processing, and the logistics of transportation from the locations of forestry resources to the conversion sites and then to the final markets. To reduce the design problem to a manageable size the impact of each uncertain parameter on the objective function is computed for each end of the parameter's range. The parameters that cause the most change in the profit over their range are then combined into scenarios that are used to find a design through a two stage mixedinteger stochastic program. The first stage decisions are the capital investment decisions including the size and location of the processing plants. The second stage recourse decisions are the biomass and product flows in each scenario. The objective is the maximization of the expected profit over the different scenarios. The robustness and global sensitivity analysis of the nominal design (for a single nominal scenario) vs. the robust design (for multiple scenarios) are analyzed using Monte Carlo simulation over the hypercube formed from the parameter ranges. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This paper deals with some essential open questions in the field of optimal power flow (OPF) computations, namely: the limitation of the number of controls allowed to move, the trade-off between the objective function...
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This paper deals with some essential open questions in the field of optimal power flow (OPF) computations, namely: the limitation of the number of controls allowed to move, the trade-off between the objective function and the number of controls allowed to move, the computation of the minimum number of control actions needed to satisfy constraints, and the determination of the sequence of control actions to be taken by the system operator in order to achieve its operation goal. To address these questions, we propose approaches which rely on the computation of sensitivities of the objective function and inequality constraints with respect to control actions. We thus determine a subset of controls allowed to move in the OPF, by solving a sensitivity-based mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. We study the performances of these approaches on three test systems (of 60, 118, and 618 buses) and by considering three different OPF problems important for a system operator in emergency and/or in normal states, namely the removal of thermal congestions, the removal of bus voltage limits violation, and the reduction of the active power losses.
This paper studies the combined task of determining a favorable machine configuration and line balancing (MCLB) for an assembly line where a single type of printed circuit board is assembled by a set of interconnected...
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This paper studies the combined task of determining a favorable machine configuration and line balancing (MCLB) for an assembly line where a single type of printed circuit board is assembled by a set of interconnected, reconfigurable machine modules. The MCLB problem has been solved previously by heuristic methods. In the present work, we give a mathematical formulation for it and transform the model into a linearintegerprogramming model that can be solved using a standard solver for problems of moderate size. The model determines the best machine configuration and allocation of components to the machine modules with the objective of minimizing the cycle time. Because the solutions found in this way are globally optimal, they can be used to evaluate the efficiency of previous heuristics designed for the MCLB problem. In our experiments, an evolutionary algorithm gave near optimal results.
The eco-industrial park (EIP) concept provides a framework in which several plants can cooperate with each other and exchange their wastewater to minimize total freshwater consumption. Emergy analysis is a methodology...
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The eco-industrial park (EIP) concept provides a framework in which several plants can cooperate with each other and exchange their wastewater to minimize total freshwater consumption. Emergy analysis is a methodology that considers the total, cumulative energy which has been consumed within a system;thus, by minimizing emergy, an environmentally optimal EIP can be designed. This article presents a mixed-integerlinearprogramming (MILP) model for minimizing emergy of an interplant water network in an EIP. The methodology accounts for the environmental impacts of water use, energy consumption, and capital goods within the EIP in a balanced manner. The proposed technique is then demonstrated by solving a case study from literature.
We investigate the joint problem of relay selection and optimal sharing of relay power in wireless cellular networks with multicast traffic. We use two different performance metrics to maximize the network performance...
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We investigate the joint problem of relay selection and optimal sharing of relay power in wireless cellular networks with multicast traffic. We use two different performance metrics to maximize the network performance. We first present a mixed Boolean-convex optimization model to maximize the overall network capacity and solve this combinatorial problem optimally using branch and bound technique. We then show that obtaining the optimal solution is computationally not feasible for large network sizes and, unlike the case of unicast traffic, a water filling method does not yield near optimal solutions in multicast scenarios. We thus adopt an algorithm based on sequential fixing which substantially reduces the computation time and achieves near optimal solutions. In addition, we present a mixed integer linear programming model to maximize the capacity of the minimum capacity link and show that the model is very efficient to reach the optimal solutions.
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