GNOM at the 24th Conference on Operational research

The GNOM group has participated in the 24th European Conference on Operational Reserach that was held in Lisbon on July 11-14. Professor Albert Ferrer, member of the GNOM team, is one of the organizers of the stream "Nonsmooth optimization", and prof. F. Javier Heredia is the chairman of the session "Large-Scale Mixed optimization Problems". The streams and sessions where the members of the GNOM research group participate are:

Stream: Nonsmooth Optimization (A. Ferrer, organizer)
Session: Large-scale Mixed Optimization Problems (F. Javier Heredia, chairman)

• Solving tough instances of the controlled tabular adjustment problem, J.A. González, J. Castro.
• Perspective cuts for solving the optimal electricity market bid problem with bilateral contracts, E. Mijangos, F. Javier Heredia. (*)
• Endogenous model for medium-term electricity generation planning in liberalized mixed markets, L. Marí, N. Nabona (*)

Session: Nonsmooth Global Optimization

• Using Extended Cutting Angle and Penalty Methods for Solving Semi-infinite Programming Problems, A. Ferrer.

Stream: Stochastic Programming 1
Session: Applications of stochastic programming to the energy sector

• Optimal day-ahead bidding strategy with futures and bilateral contracts. Scenario generation through factor models. Cristina Corchero, F. Javier Heredia, M. Pilar Muñoz. (*)

The contributions marked with (*) present several results of the research project DPI2008-02153