MS 00-017 Abstract

A Convexification Method for a Class of Global Optimization Problems with Applications to Reliability Optimization

Xiaoling Sun, Ken McKinnon and Duan Li,

Technical Report MS 00-017

Abstract
A convexification method is proposed for solving a class of global optimization problems with certain monotone properties. It is shown that this class of problems can be transformed into equivalent concave minimization problems using the proposed convexification schemes. An outer approximation method can then be used to find the global solution of the transformed problems. Applications to mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems arising in reliability optimization of complex system are discussed and satisfactory numerical results are presented.

Key words: Global optimization, monotone optimization, concave minimization, reliability optimization.
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