The Branch-and-Bound Tree Closure

This paper investigates the a-posteriori analysis of Branch-and-Bound (BB) trees to extract structural information about the feasible region of mixed-binary linear programs. We introduce three novel outer approximations of the feasible region, systematically constructed from a BB tree. These are: a tight formulation based on disjunctive programming, a branching-based formulation derived from the tree’s branching … Read more

On Multidimensonal Disjunctive Inequalities for Chance-Constrained Stochastic Problems with Finite Support

We consider mixed-integer linear chance-constrained problems for which the random vector that parameterizes the feasible region has finite support. Our key objective is to improve branch-and-bound or -cut approaches by introducing new types of valid inequalities that improve the dual bounds and, by this, the overall performance of such methods. We introduce so-called primal-dual as … Read more

Adaptive Partitioning for Chance-Constrained Problems with Finite Support

This paper studies chance-constrained stochastic optimization problems with finite support. It presents an iterative method that solves reduced-size chance-constrained models obtained by partitioning the scenario set. Each reduced problem is constructed to yield a bound on the optimal value of the original problem. We show how to adapt the partitioning of the scenario set so … Read more