Social entrepreneurship intrigues researchers as well as practitioners because of its unique character: Social entrepreneurs apply business strategies to achieve a social mission and add value to society. As a young field of research, social entrepreneurship is still dominated by conceptual work...

In this paper we present a simulated annealing approach for the gas network optimization problem. A gas network consists of a set of pipes to transport the gas from the sources to the sinks whereby gas pressure gets lost due to friction. Further on there are compressors, which increase gas...

We introduce a mixed integer linear modeling approach for the optimization of dynamic transport networks based on the piecewise linearization of nonlinear constraints and we show how to apply this method by two examples, transient gas and water supply network optimization. We state the mixed...