23rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

A Parallel Method with Hybrid Algorithms for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming

Kai Zhou^a, Wei Wan^b, Xi Chen∗^{, a}, Zhijiang Shao^a and Lorenz T. Biegler^b,    ^aState Key Lab of Industrial Control Technology, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, China, ^bDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, ^∗Corresponding author. Tel:[phone], ^[e-mail]

Abstract

This study aims at improving the solution efficiency of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) through parallelism. Unlike most conventional parallel implementations of MINLP solvers, which utilize multi-threads to share the burden in the serial mode, ...