Preliminary Program subject to change
10C14 Advances in Optimization II
OverviewThis session emphasizes recent advancements in optimization as applied to Chemical Engineering. Papers that discuss novel local, global, deterministic, and/or stochastic optimization theory and application to Chemical Engineering problems are of particular interest.
Primary SponsorComputers in Operations and Information Processing (10c)

Chair

John Siirola
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Exploratory Simulation Technologies
Sandia National Laboratories
P. O. Box 5800 - MS 0370
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0370
Phone Number: (505) 284-5419
Fax Number: (505) 284-0154
Email: jdsiiro@sandia.gov

CoChair

Miguel J. Bagajewicz
Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering
University of Oklahoma
100 E. Boyd St.
T-335
Norman, OK 73019
Phone Number: (405) 325-5458
Email: bagajewicz@ou.edu
Automatic Convexity Detection for Global Optimization
Xiaowei Bao, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 and Nick Sahinidis, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Doherty Hall 4210C, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Efficient Generation of Globally Optimal Pareto-Fronts Using Constraint Programming
Prakash R. Kotecha, Mani Bhushan and Ravindra D. Gudi, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India
A New Approach To Minlp Containing Noisy Variables And Black-Box Functions
Eddie Davis and Marianthi Ierapetritou, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Global Optimization Of Bilinear Generalized Disjunctive Programs
Juan P. Ruiz and Ignacio E. Grossmann, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
A Global Optimization Algorithm For Multilinear Programming And Its Application To The Pooling Problem
Chrysanthos E. Gounaris, CHE, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 and Christodoulos A. Floudas, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08544
New Algorithm For Mixed Integer Linear Bi-Level Programming
George K. Sacharidis, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, RUTGERS The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Rd, PIscataway, NJ 08854 and Marianthi Ierapetritou, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854

Computing and Systems Technology Division