Open pit mine planning via a continuous optimization approach

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Andreas Griewank (†)
• Subject Area: Mathematics
• Term: from 2010 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 182331420

Subject of the investigation are optimization problems to schedule the excavation of open pits with or without capacity constraints. Since the existence of solutions for these problems has already been shown the main task is to characterize the solutions by local optimality conditions and to design algorithms for their numerical approximation. The project will be pursued in close collaboration with colleagues from the Center for Mathematical Modehng in Santiago de Chile.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Chile
• Participating Persons: Professor Dr. Felipe Alvarez; Professor Dr. Jorge Amaya