Open pit mine planning via a continuous optimization approach

研究了有或无容量限制的露天基坑开挖调度的优化问题。由于这些问题的解的存在性已经被证明，主要任务是用局部最优性条件来描述解的特征，并为它们的数值逼近设计算法。该项目将与智利圣地亚哥数学建模中心的同事密切合作。

Subject of the investigation are optimization problems to schedule the excavation of open pits with or without capacity constraints. Since the existence of solutions for these problems has already been shown the main task is to characterize the solutions by local optimality conditions and to design algorithms for their numerical approximation. The project will be pursued in close collaboration with colleagues from the Center for Mathematical Modehng in Santiago de Chile.