Formulations of mathematical programs often require that some of the decision variables take only integer values. Consider the formulation You can follow the same steps to identify binary variables.

Abstract: In manufacturing-related industries, scheduling of resources and tasks play an important role in improving efficiency and productivity as well as reducing costs. Job-shop scheduling problem ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new mixed-integer linear formulation for the unit commitment problem of thermal units. The formulation proposed requires fewer binary variables and constraints than ...