From this page, the reviewers of the Optimization and Systems Engineering research group’s proposal for an internal Center of Excellence at Åbo Akademi University can find additional information concerning the application.

Supporting letters

Supporting letters for an internal Center of Excellence at Åbo Akademi University from three members of the International Scientific Panel

1. Prof. Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

2. Prof. Christodoulos Floudas, Princeton University, USA

3. Prof. Efistratos Pistikopoulos, Imperial College London, UK

The ten selected publications by Prof. Westerlund

The selected papers are available at http://users.abo.fi/twesterl/selected-publications/. The files are numbered as in the list below.

1. Eronen V.-P., Mäkelä M. M. and Westerlund T. (2013). Extended cutting plane method for a class of nonsmooth nonconvex MINLP problems. Optimization, available online, June 6th 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02331934.2013.79647

2. Skjäl A. and Westerlund T. (2014). New Methods for Calculating αBB-type Underestimators. Journal of Global Optimization, 58, 411-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10898-013-0057-y

3. Eronen V.-P., Mäkelä M. M. and Westerlund T. (2014). On the generalization of ECP and OA methods to nonsmooth convex MINLP problems. Optimization, 63, 1057–1073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02331934.2012.712118

4. Lundell A., Skjäl A. and Westerlund T. (2013). A reformulation framework for global optimization. Journal of Global Optimization, 57, 115–141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10898-012-9877-4

5. Skjäl A., Westerlund T., Misener R. and Floudas C. A. (2012). A generalization of the classical αBB convex underestimation via diagonal and non-diagonal quadratic terms. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 154, 462–490. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10957-012-0033-6

6. Nyberg A. and Westerlund T. (2012). A new exact discrete linear reformulation of the quadratic assignment problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 220, 314–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.02.010

7. Karelahti J., Vainiomäki P. and Westerlund T. (2011). Large scale production planning in the stainless steel industry. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 50, 4893–4906. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie101376b

8. Still C. and Westerlund T. (2010). A linear programming-based optimization algorithm for solving nonlinear programming problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 200, 658–670. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.01.033

9. Lundell A. and Westerlund T. (2009). Convex underestimation strategies for signomial functions. Optimization Methods and Software, 24, 505–522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10556780802702278

10. Westerlund T. and Pettersson F. (1995). An extended cutting plane method for solving convex MINLP problems. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 19, 131–136. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/0098-1354(95)87027-X