Preliminary Program subject to change
10C15 Advances in Optimization II
OverviewPapers are invited in the area of operation, optimization, and control of micro- and nano-scale systems. Here, micro and nano refer to the size of the entire system, or the scale at which operations take place (e.g. nanostructured materials). Systems could include but are not limited to micro-reactors, micro/nano electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), micro-sensors and actuators, and micro-fluidic systems. Applications from bioengineered systems (e.g. bio-MEMS) are particularly encouraged. Contributions that address modeling issues involved such as multi-scale modeling, present new strategies for operation and control, or discuss novel applications are welcome.
Primary SponsorComputers in Operations and Information Processing (10c)

Chair

Marianthi Ierapetritou
Professor
Rutgers University
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
98 Brett Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Phone Number: 732-445-2971
Fax Number: 732-445-2421
Email: marianth@sol.rutgers.edu

CoChair

Randy Esposito
Development Associate
Praxair
175 East Park Drive
PO Box 44
Tonawanda, NY 14150
Phone Number: (716) 879-2406
Fax Number: (716) 879-7091
Email: randy_esposito@praxair.com
Particle Swarm Optimization in Discontinuous Function Spaces
Arun Giridhar, Balachandra B. Krishnamurthy, Rakesh Agrawal and Venkat Venkatasubramanian, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
A Block-Bordered Interior Point Approach for the Solution of Multiperiod Nonlinear Programs
Carl D. Laird, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 and Lorenz T. Biegler, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Strong Valid Inequalities and a Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for a Scheduling Mip Model
Christos T. Maravelias, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706
Parameter Estimation for Stochastic Differential Models: Application to a Model of Polymer Rheology
Bernardino Pereira Lo, Andrew J. Haslam and Claire S. J. Adjiman, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, United Kingdom
Simultaneous Large-Scale Parameter Estimation in Tubular Polymerization Reactors
Victor M. Zavala and Lorenz T. Biegler, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Robust and Efficient Algorithm for Optimizing Crude Oil Operations
J. Li1, Wenkai Li2, I.A. Karimi1 and R. Srinivasan1, (1)Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore, (2)Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117576, Singapore, Singapore
A Novel and Effective Integer Optimization Approach for the Nsf Panel Assignment Problem: a Multi-Resource and Preference-Constrained Generalized Assignment Problem
Stacy L. Janak1, Martin S. Taylor1, Christodoulos A. Floudas1, Maria K. Burka2 and T. J. Mountziaris2, (1)Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08540, (2)National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 525, Arlington, VA 22230, U.S.A.

Computing and Systems Technology Division