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Tightening piecewise McCormick relaxations for bilinear problems
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We address nonconvex bilinear problems where the main objective is the computation of a tight lowerbound for the objective function to be minimized. This can be obtained through a mixed-integer linearprogramming formulation relying on the concept of piecewise McCormick relaxation. It works by dividingthe domain of one of the variables in each bilinear term into a given number of partitions, while consid-ering global bounds for the other. We now propose using partition-dependent bounds for the latter so asto further improve the quality of the relaxation. While it involves solving hundreds or even thousands oflinear bound contracting problems in a pre-processing step, the benefit from having a tighter formula-tion more than compensates the additional computational time. Results for a set of water network designproblems show that the new algorithm can lead to orders of magnitude reduction in the optimality gapcompared to commercial solvers.
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Water minimization Nonlinear programming Mathematical modelling Optimization
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Castro, P.M. - Tightening piecewise McCormick relaxations for bilinear problems. In: Computers and Chemical Engineering, 2015, Vol. 72, p. 300-311
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Elsevier