The measurement of technical efficiency is a topic of great interest in microeconomics and engineering. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the existing techniques for measuring technical efficiency. One of the ...
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The measurement of technical efficiency is a topic of great interest in microeconomics and engineering. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the existing techniques for measuring technical efficiency. One of the challenges related to DEA is to introduce a "well-defined" efficiency measure. Overall, it means that the technical efficiency measure should satisfy a list of mathematical and economical properties. Regarding this point, an unresolved question in the DEA literature to date, is whether any measure can satisfy both Indication, also called Pareto-efficiency identification, and uniqueness of the projection point generated by the corresponding efficiency optimization model. With this issue in mind, this paper introduces a new family of measures, inspired on the Range-Adjusted Measure (RAM), which satisfy a list of six properties. This family of measures will be called Generalized Range-Adjusted Measure (GRAM). Additionally, we show in this paper how GRAM can be implemented from a computational point of view and we also provide an economical interpretation of its dual program in terms of (shadow) profit maximization. Finally, an empirical example extracted from the literature serves to illustrate the new methodology. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
In this paper,we accomplish the unified convergence analysis of a second-order method of multipliers(i.e.,a second-order augmented Lagrangian method)for solving the conventional nonlinear conic optimization ***,the al...
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In this paper,we accomplish the unified convergence analysis of a second-order method of multipliers(i.e.,a second-order augmented Lagrangian method)for solving the conventional nonlinear conic optimization ***,the algorithm that we investigate incorporates a specially designed nonsmooth(generalized)Newton step to furnish a second-order update rule for the *** first show in a unified fashion that under a few abstract assumptions,the proposed method is locally convergent and possesses a(nonasymptotic)superlinear convergence rate,even though the penalty parameter is fixed and/or the strict complementarity ***,we demonstrate that for the three typical scenarios,i.e.,the classic nonlinear programming,the nonlinear second-order cone programming and the nonlinear semidefinite programming,these abstract assumptions are nothing but exactly the implications of the iconic sufficient conditions that are assumed for establishing the Q-linear convergence rates of the method of multipliers without assuming the strict complementarity.
We design moving horizon state estimators for a general model of bioprocesses. The underlying optimization is nonconvex due to the microbial growth kinetics, which are modeled as nonlinear functions. We relax the nonc...
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We design moving horizon state estimators for a general model of bioprocesses. The underlying optimization is nonconvex due to the microbial growth kinetics, which are modeled as nonlinear functions. We relax the nonconvex growth constraints so that the optimization becomes a second-ordercone program, which can be solved efficiently at large scales. Unfortunately, solutions to the relaxation can be inexact and thus lead to inaccurate state estimates. To recover feasible, albeit potentially locally optimal solutions, we use the concave-convex procedure, which here takes the form of a sequence of second-ordercone programs. We find that the moving horizon state estimators outperform the unscented Kalman filter on numerical examples based on the gradostat and anaerobic digestion when there is high process noise or parameter error. (C) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The multiple traveling salespersons problem with moving targets is a generalization of the classical traveling salespersons problem, where the targets (nodes or objects) are moving over time. Additionally, for each ta...
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The multiple traveling salespersons problem with moving targets is a generalization of the classical traveling salespersons problem, where the targets (nodes or objects) are moving over time. Additionally, for each target a visibility time window is given. The task is to find routes for several salespersons so that each target is reached exactly once within its visibility time window and the sum of all traveled distances of all salespersons is minimal. We present different modeling formulations for this TSP variant. The time requirements are modeled differently in each approach. Our goal is to examine what formulation is most suitable in terms of runtime to solve the multiple traveling salespersons problem with moving targets with exact methods. Computational experiments are carried out on randomly generated test instances to compare the different modeling approaches. The results for large-scale instances show, that the best way to model time requirements is to directly insert them into a formulation with discrete time steps.
We present a linear cutting-plane relaxation approach that rapidly proves tight lower bounds for the Alternating Current Optimal Power FlowProblem (ACOPF). Our method leverages outer-envelope linear cuts for well-know...
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This paper conducts a comparative study on optimizing power loss minimization in electrical power systems by strategically implementing Static VAR Compensator (SVC). The primary focus is on leveraging SVCs to dynamica...
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second-order cone programming problems are a tractable subclass of convex optimization problems that can be solved using polynomial algorithms. In the last decade, stochastic second-order cone programming problems hav...
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second-order cone programming problems are a tractable subclass of convex optimization problems that can be solved using polynomial algorithms. In the last decade, stochastic second-order cone programming problems have been studied, and efficient algorithms for solving them have been developed. The mixed-integer version of these problems is a new class of interest to the optimization community and practitioners, in which certain variables are required to be integers. In this paper, we describe five applications that lead to stochastic mixed-integer second-order cone programming problems. Additionally, we present solution algorithms for solving stochastic mixed-integer second-order cone programming using cuts and relaxations by combining existing algorithms for stochastic second-order cone programming with extensions of mixed-integer second-order cone programming. The applications, which are the focus of this paper, include facility location, portfolio optimization, uncapacitated inventory, battery swapping stations, and berth allocation planning. Considering the fact that mixed-integer programs are usually known to be NP-hard, bringing applications to the surface can detect tractable special cases and inspire for further algorithmic improvements in the future.
Natural-gas fired units (NGFU) occupy an increasingly important position in the power system, leading to a closer connection between the power system and natural gas system, especially in the distribution level. To ut...
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Natural-gas fired units (NGFU) occupy an increasingly important position in the power system, leading to a closer connection between the power system and natural gas system, especially in the distribution level. To utilize the residual differential pressure energy and reduce operation costs, the conversion model of the generator using residual differential pressure energy is formulated, and then the cooperation model of the power system and natural gas system is built in this paper. Due to the original optimization model of power system and natural gas system in the distribution level is non-convex, the second-order cone programming (SOCP) based on a modified convex concave procedure (CCP) algorithm is used to handle the NP-hard problem. The simulation results show operation costs are reduced via the proposed strategy, and the SOCP based on the modified CCP algorithm achieves good performance in fast solution with the constraint of Weymouth equation. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
The number of coefficients of multi-dimensional (M-D) finite-extent impulse response (FIR) filters increases exponentially with the number of dimensions leading to significantly high computational complexities. In thi...
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The number of coefficients of multi-dimensional (M-D) finite-extent impulse response (FIR) filters increases exponentially with the number of dimensions leading to significantly high computational complexities. In this brief, we propose a minimax design method for M-D FIR filters having sparse coefficients, therefore, having low computational complexities. We consider the design of M-D FIR filters with arbitrary frequency responses and low group delays of which the coefficients are complex valued. We formulate the minimax design as a second-order cone programming problem. Design examples confirm that M-D sparse FIR filters designed using the proposed method provide more than 60% reduction in the computational complexity for a similar error in the frequency response approximation compared to M-D FIR nonsparse filters designed using previously proposed minimax methods.
With increased data availability, data quality is the biggest problem in using AI models. The data may suffer from missing values and noisy values. Another major challenge is to get accurate labels for feature vectors...
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