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Christodoulos A. Floudas

Christodoulos A. Floudas

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
118
Citations
48843
World Ranking
59
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Christodoulos A. Floudas was affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields within engineering and energy, focusing on optimization and control systems applied principally to process engineering and energy management.

The primary fields of study encompassed Engineering and Energy, with subfields including Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Numerical Analysis.

The main topics addressed in their work were:

  • Process Optimization and Integration
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • Energy Load and Power Forecasting
  • Energy Efficiency and Management
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Fault Detection and Control Systems

Among recent published papers were:

  • "A framework to predict the price of energy for the end-users with applications to monetary and energy policies," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "An integrated data-driven modeling & global optimization approach for multi-period nonlinear production planning problems," 2020, Computers & Chemical Engineering
  • "A novel quantitative forecasting framework in energy with applications in designing energy-intelligent tax policies," 2021, Applied Energy
  • "Robust Optimization for Uncertain Pathways: Converting Natural Gas into Liquid Transportation Fuels in an Unpredictable Environment," 2023, Global International Journal of Innovative Research

Frequent co-authors over their career included Stacy L. Janak, Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos, Stefanos G. Baratsas, Alexander M. Niziolek, and Onur Onel.

Their work was published in venues such as Nature Communications, Computers & Chemical Engineering, Applied Energy, and the Global International Journal of Innovative Research.

Christodoulos A. Floudas was recognized as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications

    Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • Proteome-wide post-translational modification statistics: frequency analysis and curation of the swiss-prot database

    George A. Khoury;Richard C. Baliban;Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • Deterministic Global Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications

    Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • Encyclopedia of Optimization

    Christodoulos C. A. Floudas;P. M. Pardalos

  • Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization

    Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • A Collection of Test Problems for Constrained Global Optimization Algorithms

    Christodoulos A. Floudas;Panos M. Pardalos

  • Continuous-time versus discrete-time approaches for scheduling of chemical processes: a review

    Christodoulos A. Floudas;Xiaoxia Lin

  • A global optimization method, αBB, for general twice-differentiable constrained NLPs — I. Theoretical advances

    C.S. Adjiman;S. Dallwig;C.A. Floudas;A. Neumaier

  • Effective Continuous-Time Formulation for Short-Term Scheduling. 1. Multipurpose Batch Processes

    M. G. Ierapetritou;C. A. Floudas

  • ANTIGONE: Algorithms for coNTinuous / Integer Global Optimization of Nonlinear Equations

    Ruth Misener;Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • Automatic synthesis of optimum heat exchanger network configurations

    C. A. Floudas;A. R. Ciric;I. E. Grossmann

  • A review of recent advances in global optimization

    C. A. Floudas;C. E. Gounaris

  • αBB: A global optimization method for general constrained nonconvex problems

    Ioannis P. Androulakis;Costas D. Maranas;Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • Active constraint strategy for flexibility analysis in chemical processes

    I.E. Grossmann;C.A. Floudas

  • Mixed Integer Linear Programming in Process Scheduling: Modeling, Algorithms, and Applications

    Christodoulos A. Floudas;Xiaoxia Lin

  • A global optimization method, αBB, for general twice-differentiable constrained NLPs—II. Implementation and computational results

    C.S. Adjiman;I.P. Androulakis;C.A. Floudas

  • Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization

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  • A new robust optimization approach for scheduling under uncertainty: I. Bounded uncertainty

    Xiaoxia Lin;Stacy L. Janak;Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • Global optimum search for nonconvex NLP and MINLP problems

    C.A. Floudas;A. Aggarwal;A.R. Ciric

  • Recent Advances in Global Optimization

    Christodoulos A. Floudas;Panos M. Pardalos

  • Deterministic Global Optimization

    Christodoulos A. Floudas

  • Generalized Benders Decomposition.

    Christodoulos A. Floudas

Frequent Co-Authors

Panos M. Pardalos
Panos M. Pardalos University of Florida
Claire S. Adjiman
Claire S. Adjiman Imperial College London
M. M. Faruque Hasan
M. M. Faruque Hasan Texas A&M University
Costas D. Maranas
Costas D. Maranas Pennsylvania State University
Marianthi G. Ierapetritou
Marianthi G. Ierapetritou University of Delaware
Herschel Rabitz
Herschel Rabitz Princeton University
Benjamin A. Garcia
Benjamin A. Garcia Washington University in St. Louis
Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos
Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos Texas A&M University
Richard A. Yetter
Richard A. Yetter Pennsylvania State University
Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Joshua D. Rabinowitz Princeton University

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