“…-Mixed Integer Linear Programming is the most widely used methodology (Sharma et al, 2013;An et al, 2011;De Meyer et al, 2014), especially for decisions on location (Mafakheri and Nasiri, 2014), technology selection, capital and investment, production planning, and inventory management. While the limitations of MILP in terms of computational effort and determinism are recognized, its flexibility and capability for capturing global optima coherently with bottom-up engineering optimization modeling assumptions are most likely the main reasons for the success of MILP in this field.…”