U.S.-Argentina Collaborative Research: Integration of Disjunctive Programming and Constrained Logic Programming for the Design and Scheduling of Process Systems

这项美国-阿根廷项目奖将为卡耐基-梅隆大学伊格纳西奥·格罗斯曼博士与卡耐基-梅隆大学格罗斯曼博士之间的合作研究提供支持。阿根廷圣达菲国立滨海大学的Jaime Cerda和Aldo Vecchietti说。他们的工作是将析取规划和约束逻辑规划集成到过程系统的设计和调度中。本项目将介绍广义析取规划和约束逻辑规划的最新进展，以解决过程系统调度中出现的组合问题。合作者将专注于短期混合批/连续多产品调度和设计模型。Grossmann博士在混合整数线性和非线性优化领域及其在包括工艺操作问题在内的各种领域的应用方面拥有丰富的经验，而Cerda博士则在热交换器网络综合以及工艺调度问题方面拥有专业知识。这项工作的结果将应用于设计、调度和控制，以及各种工程和科学领域。

Grossmann0104315This U.S.-Argentina Program award will provide support for cooperative research between Dr. Ignacio Grossmann of Carnegie-Mellon University and Drs. Jaime Cerda and Aldo Vecchietti of Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. Their work is in the integration of disjunctive programming and constrained logic programming for the design and scheduling of process systems.This project will introduce recent advances on generalized disjunctive programming and constrained logic programming to the combinatorial problems that come up in scheduling of process systems. The collaborators will concentrate on short term mixed batch/continuous multiproduct scheduling and design models. Dr. Grossmann has experience in the area of mixed integer linear and nonlinear optimization and its applications in a variety of areas including process operations problems, while Dr. Cerda has expertise in heat exchanger network synthesis as well as process scheduling problems. Results of this work will have applications in design, scheduling, and control, as well as in a variety of engineering and science areas.