Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol.22, No.3, 357-365, 1998
An extended cutting plane method for a class of non-convex MINLP problems
An extended cutting plane method is introduced. The extended method can be applied in the solution of a class of non-convex MINLP (mixed-integer non-linear programming) problems, although the method was originally introduced for the solution of convex problems only. Global convergence properties of the method are given for pseudo-convex MINLP problems in the present paper and a numerical example from the paper-converting industry is finally provided to illustrate the numerical procedure.