Issue |
RAIRO-Oper. Res.
Volume 43, Number 1, January-March 2009
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Page(s) | 55 - 85 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ro/2009005 | |
Published online | 28 January 2009 |
Reformulations in Mathematical Programming: Definitions and Systematics
LIX École Polytechnique, 91128
Palaiseau, France; liberti@lix.polytechnique.fr
Received:
5
March
2008
Accepted:
17
July
2008
A reformulation of a mathematical program is a formulation which shares some properties with, but is in some sense better than, the original program. Reformulations are important with respect to the choice and efficiency of the solution algorithms; furthermore, it is desirable that reformulations can be carried out automatically. Reformulation techniques are widespread in mathematical programming but interestingly they have never been studied under a unified framework. This paper attempts to move some steps in this direction. We define a framework for storing and manipulating mathematical programming formulations and give several fundamental definitions categorizing useful reformulations in essentially four types (opt-reformulations, narrowings, relaxations and approximations). We establish some theoretical results and give reformulation examples for each type.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 90C11 / 90C26 / 90C27 / 90C30 / 90C99
Key words: Reformulation / formulation / model / linearization / mathematical program.
© EDP Sciences, ROADEF, SMAI, 2009
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