Nicolas Sawaya

Nonlinear disjunctive convex sets arise naturally in the formulation or solution methods of many discrete–continuous optimization problems. Often, a tight algebraic representation of the disjunctive convex set is sought, with the tightest such representation involving the characterization of the convex hull of the disjunctive convex set. In the most general case, this can be explicitly … Read more

This paper is motivated by the fact that mixed integer nonlinear programming is an important and difficult area for which there is a need for developing new methods and software for solving large-scale problems. Moreover, both fundamental building blocks, namely mixed integer linear programming and nonlinear programming, have seen considerable and steady progress in recent … Read more