This volume presents the fundamentals of nonlinear and mixed-integer optimisation, and their applications in the important area of process synthesis in chemical

Many engineering, operations, and scientific applications include a mixture of discrete and continuous decision variables and nonlinear relationships involving

Interest in constrained optimization originated with the simple linear pro gramming model since it was practical and perhaps the only computationally tractable

Disjunctive Programming is a technique and a discipline initiated by the author in the early 1970's, which has become a central tool for solving nonconvex optim

This is a supplementary volume to the major three-volume Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization set. It can also be regarded as a stand-alone volume presenting