Ancestral Benders’ Cuts and Multi-term Disjunctions for Mixed-Integer Recourse Decisions in Stochastic Programming

This paper focuses on solving two-stage stochastic mixed integer programs (SMIPs) with general mixed integer decision variables in both stages. We develop a decomposition algorithm in which the first stage approximation is solved using a branch-and-bound tree with nodes inheriting Benders’ cuts that are valid for their ancestor nodes. In addition, we develop two closely … Read more