An important class of mathematical programming problems is the scheduling of manufacturing and transportation systems. In many cases, the independent variables which describe the manufacturing system ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper we propose a new local quasi-Newton method to solve the equality constrained nonlinear programming problem. The pivotal feature ...

To make things worse, the problems are nonlinear and have mixed-integer decisions," explains Potschka. "Most approaches so far either drop the nonlinearity in favor of a relatively coarse piecewise ...