2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Advances in Optimization

Papers are invited in the general area of Process Systems Optimization. Application papers offering insights into the interplay between optimization theory and practice are particularly encouraged.

Chair

Shivakumar Kameswaran, United Technologies Research Center

Co-Chair

Carl D. Laird, Texas A&M University

Presentations

12:30 PM

(78a) Global Optimization of a Special Class of Nonlinear Problems
João Teles, Pedro M. Castro, Henrique A. S. Matos

12:50 PM

(78b) Exploiting Vector Space Properties to Strengthen the Relaxation of Bilinear Programs Arising in the Global Optimization of Process Networks
Juan P. Ruiz, Ignacio E. Grossmann

01:10 PM

(78c) Efficient Parallel Optimization On Emerging Computational Architectures
Sean Legg, Carl D. Laird, Yu Zhu

01:30 PM

(78d) Globally Optimal TAC for Compressors and Coolers in Series
Jeremy A. Conner, Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis

01:50 PM

(78e) Global Optimization of a Class of Large Scale Process Operations Problem through Dual Decomposition
Zukui Li, Marianthi G. Ierapetritou

02:10 PM

(78f) Large-Scale Global Optimization of Generalized and Extended Pooling Problems: Methods and Computational Tools
Ruth Misener, Jeffrey P. Thompson, Christodoulos A. Floudas

02:30 PM

(78g) Novel Relaxations for Global Optimization
Nick Sahinidis, Aida Khajavirad