Lihong Cheng, Lei Feng, Zhiwu Li, Model abstraction for discrete-event systems by binary linear programming with applications to manufacturing systems, Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 104, No. 3 (2021) ...

We give a branch-and-cut algorithm for solving linear programs (LPs) with continuous separable piecewise-linear cost functions (PLFs). Models for PLFs use continuous variables in special-ordered sets ...