In spite of the remarkable improvements in the quality of general purpose mixed integer programming software, the effective solution of a variety of lot-sizing problems depends crucially on the development of tight formulations for the special problem features occurring in practice. After...

Relaxation and Decomposition -- Simplifying via Reformulation, Approximation, and Relaxation -- Approximating and Relaxing Optimization Problems -- Learning-Assisted Relaxations and Approximations -- Solving Optimization Problems with Complicating Variables -- Solving Optimization Problems via...