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    Challenges in Enterprise Wide Optimization for the Process Industries

    Enterprisewide optimization (EWO) is a new emerging area that lies at the interface of chemical engineering and operations research, and has become a major goal in the process industries due to the increasing ...

    Ignacio E. Grossmann, Kevin C. Furman in Optimization and Logistics Challenges in t… (2009)

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    Logic Inference and a Decomposition Algorithm for the Resource-Constrained Scheduling of Testing Tasks in the Development of New Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Products

    In highly regulated industries, such as agrochemical and pharmaceutical, new products have to pass a number of regulatory tests related to safety, efficacy and environmental impact, to gain FDA approval. If a ...

    Christos T. Maravelias, Ignacio E. Grossmann in Handbook on Modelling for Discrete Optimiz… (2006)

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    A Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Approach to the Optimal Planning of Offshore Oilfield Infrastructures

    A multiperiod Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) model for offshore oilfield infrastructure planning is presented where nonlinear reservoir behavior is incorporated directly into the formulation. Disc...

    Susara A. van den Heever in Handbook on Modelling for Discrete Optimiz… (2006)