In this paper, we present an access network design problem with end-to-end quality of service (QoS) requirement. The problem can be conceptualized as a two-level hierarchical location-allocation problem on the tree topology with nonlinear side constraints. The objective function of the nonlinear...

Principal Components are usually hard to interpret. Sparseness is considered as one way to improve interpretability, and thus a trade-off between variance explained by the components and sparseness is frequently sought. In this note we address the problem of simultaneous maximization of variance...

We consider the problem of designing a new natural gas transmission network or expanding an existing network while minimizing the total investment and operating costs. We develop an integrated large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear optimization model to determine pipelines in the network,...

We present two linearization-based algorithms for mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) having a convex continuous relaxation. The key feature of these algorithms is that, in contrast to most existing linearization-based algorithms for convex MINLPs, they do not require the continuous...