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where f is the objective function and the m c i 's are the constraint functions. A point x is feasible if it satisfies all the constraints. The feasible region G is the set of all the feasible points.
Global optimization of nonlinear mixed-integer programming (MINLP) addresses decision problems in which some variables are constrained to take integer values, while the objective function or ...