2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Advances in Optimization I

Advances in Optimization

Chair

Vipin Gopal, United Technologies Research Center

Co-Chair

Prasenjeet Ghosh, ExxonMobil Process Research Laboratories

Presentations

08:30 AM

(15a) Tight Convex Underestimators for Arbitrary C2-Continuous Functions
Chrysanthos E. Gounaris, Christodoulos A. Floudas

08:55 AM

(15b) A Lagrangean Based Branch-and-Cut Technique for Global Optimization of Minlp Problems with Decomposable Structures
Ramkumar Karuppiah, Ignacio E. Grossmann

09:20 AM

(15c) Global Solution of Bilevel Programs with Nonconvex Functions
Alexander Mitsos, Panayiotis Lemonidis, Paul I. Barton

09:45 AM

(15d) Interior-Point Decomposition Approaches for Parallel Solution of Large-Scale Nonlinear Parameter Estimation Problems
Carl Laird, Victor M. Zavala, Lorenz T. Biegler

10:10 AM

(15e) Interior Point Solution of Integrated Plant and Control Design Problems with Embedded MPC
Rhoda Baker, Christopher Swartz

10:35 AM

(15f) Degree-of-Freedom-Based Methods for Phasing Centrosymmetric Structures from X-Ray Diffraction Data
Alexander B. Smith, Nikolaos Sahinidis